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Bjørn

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Norwegian, Danish and Faroese younger form of Biǫrn [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Biǫrn

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Bjarnarson Faroe Islands
Bjørnsen Denmark Norway
Bjørnson Norway
Bjørnssen Norway
Bjørnsson Faroe Islands Norway
Bjørnssøn Norway
Bjørnsøn Norway

Female

Bjarnardóttir Faroe Islands
Bjørndatter Norway
Bjørnsdatter Denmark Norway
Bjørnsdotter Norway
Bjørnsdóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Bjørn
Genitive: Bjørns
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Bjørn
Accusative: Bjørn
Dative: Bjørn / Birni
Genitive: Bjarnar / Bjørns
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Bjørn
Genitive: Bjørns

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

18 June

Norway Norway

18 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional 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&
Denmark Denmark[8]
5848
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 5848
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
92 126 0 5 92 121
Greenland Greenland[10]
21 77
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 67 0 0
n.a.
 67
Norway Norway[12]
36181
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 36181
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 Bjørn (m) Sources: [9][8][12][11]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Bjørn (m) Sources: [13]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Bjørn (m)


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables


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