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Berger
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Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Birger [1] [2] [3]
Related Names
See Birgir
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Bergersen |
|
| Bergerson |
|
| Bergerssen |
|
| Bergersson |
|
| Bergerssøn |
|
| Bergersøn |
|
Female
| Bergerdatter |
|
| Bergersdatter |
|
| Bergersdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Berger |
| Genitive: | Bergers |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Berger |
| Genitive: | Bergers |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Berger |
| Genitive: | Bergers |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 15 people were named Berger (percentage of first or only given name: 13 %) [4]
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| 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[6] |
  |
0 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| Denmark[7] |
  |
2 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
2 | n.a. |
 Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
3 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
3 |
| Norway[9] |
|
33 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
33 | n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Berger.
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/