Birgit

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Birgitta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Birgitta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Birgitarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Birgitardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Birgit
Genitive: Birgits
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Birgit
Accusative: Birgit
Dative: Birgit
Genitive: Birgitar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Birgit
Genitive: Birgitin
Partitive: Birgitiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Birgit
Accusative: Birgit
Dative: Birgit
Genitive: Birgitar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Birgit
Genitive: Birgits
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Birgit
Genitive: Birgits

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

7 October

Norway Norway

7 October

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

7 October

Sweden Sweden

13 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

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 Sweden[13]
10935 20279 10935 20279 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
18641
n.a.
18641
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
5201
n.a.
5201 0 0
Iceland Iceland[16]
17 26
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
9 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
3005
n.a.
3005
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

Name statistics for Birgit (f) Sources: [13][14][18][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Birgit (f) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Birgit (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  9. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. details see Name Statistic tables