Edit

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of Edith [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Related Names

See Eadgyð

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Editarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Editardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Edit
Genitive: Edits
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Edit
Accusative: Edit
Dative: Edit
Genitive: Editar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Edit
Genitive: Editin
Partitive: Editiä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Edit
Accusative: Edit
Dative: Edit
Genitive: Editar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Edit
Genitive: Edits
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Edit
Genitive: Edits

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

31 October

Norway Norway

31 October

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

14 May

Sweden Sweden

31 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 30,830 people were named Edit (percentage of first or only given name: 82 %) [11]

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]
1851 5343 1848 5340 3 3
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
8388
n.a.
8388 0 0
Denmark Denmark[15]
110
n.a.
110
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
6 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
214
n.a.
214
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[18]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Edit (f) Sources: [13][15][17][14]

Top List Ranking

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

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Edit (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Edit (f)


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  12. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  19. details see Name Statistic tables