Birtingr

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse

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Origin and Meaning

sea trout
sea trout
Image by US Fish and Wildlife Service,[1]
License: public domain

Old Norse name and byname

1) Old Norse birtingr = 'sea-trout' (fish) [2] [3] [4]

2) Old Norse birtingr = 'capable', 'smart', 'illustrious man' [2] [4]

3) Bjartr with an -ingr-ending, meaning 'bright one' [5] [6]

Related Names

Birtingr
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Old Norse
Birtingur
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Icelandic

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

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[7]
0 0 0 0 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
0 0 0 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Birtingr.


References

  1. Wikimedia Commons: Image by US Fish and Wildlife Service, source & license
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
  3. Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
  5. Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/