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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Sami
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish short form of Benedikte (see Benedicta) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See also Bende, Benkta, Bentine
Combinations
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Bente
|
Genitive: |
Bentes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Bente
|
Genitive: |
Benten
|
Partitive: |
Bentea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Bente
|
Genitive: |
Bentes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Bente
|
Genitive: |
Bentes
|
Name Days
Norway
|
8 October
|
Sami
|
21 March
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 170 people were named Bente (percentage of first or only given name: 83 %) [7]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[8] |
|
22786 |
n.a. |
22786 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[9] |
|
483 |
706 |
483 |
702 |
0 |
4 |
Greenland[10] |
|
15 |
28 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
35 |
n.a. |
35 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[12] |
|
4 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
16065 |
n.a. |
16065 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [9][8][13][11]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables