Margit

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Marghit and Margrit (also German) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Related Names

See Marghit

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Margitarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Margitardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Margit
Genitive: Margits
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Margit
Accusative: Margit
Dative: Margit
Genitive: Margitar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Margit
Genitive: Margitin
Partitive: Margitia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Margit
Accusative: Margit
Dative: Margit
Genitive: Margitar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Margit
Genitive: Margits
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Margit
Genitive: Margits

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

20 July

Norway Norway

20 July

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

20 July

Sweden Sweden

15 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Margit Sandemo (née Underdal, born 23 April 1924), Norwegian-Swedish historical fantasy author

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[12]
5006 13070 5006 13070 0 0
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
15417
n.a.
15417 0 0
Denmark Denmark[14]
6624
n.a.
6624
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
18 33
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
4 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
2391
n.a.
2391
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 Margit (f) Sources: [12][14][17][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Margit (f) Sources: [18]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Margit (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

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


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 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 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  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. details see Name Statistic tables