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Bernhild
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Origin and Meaning
Old High German name
Combination of BJÖRN and HILD [1]
Related Names
| Bernhild | ♀ |   |
  
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| Bernhilda | ♀ |
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| Bernhilde | ♀ |  |
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Matronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Bernhildarson |
|
Female
| Bernhildardóttir |
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Cognates
- Norse: Bjarnhildr
Grammar
| - Faroese |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bernhild |
| Accusative: | Bernhild |
| Dative: | Bernhild |
| Genitive: | Bernhildar |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bernhild |
| Genitive: | Bernhilds |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Bernhild |
| Genitive: | Bernhilds |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 24 people were named Bernhild (percentage of first or only given name: 21 %) [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[5] |
|
2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
 Denmark[6] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Norway[7] |
|
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
1 | 0 | 0 |
 Greenland[9] |
|
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 Bernhild.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/