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Benita

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Spanish short form of Benedicta (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

Benita ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Norwegian Swedish
Beníta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Benite ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Benitha ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Benithe ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Benitta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Benitte ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

See also Nita

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Benituson Faroe Islands

Female

Benitudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Benita
Genitive: Benitas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Benita
Accusative: Benitu
Dative: Benitu
Genitive: Benitu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Benita
Genitive: Benitan
Partitive: Benitaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Benita
Genitive: Benitas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Benita
Genitive: Benitas

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

21 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 567 people were named Benita (percentage of first or only given name: 42 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[11]
637 1129 637 1129 0 0
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 1734
n.a.
 1734 0 0
Denmark Denmark[13]
191
n.a.
 191
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
103
n.a.
 103
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Benita.


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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