Berit

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Berit is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Berit är en svensk och norsk dialektal form av → Birgitta. En variantform är Böret, tidigare vanligt i de västligaste landskapen. I den rikssvenska almanackan 13 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 1 februari.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Basque, Third-person singular (hura), taking first-person singular (niri) as indirect object, imperative form of jariatu (“to flow”).

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In ang, third-person singular present indicative of berīdan

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In lad, brit milah, bris

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 72 years between 1945–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Edel Hætta Eriksenb. 1921NOnot in their usual nameNorthern Saami schoolteacher and politician (1921–2023)
• Berit Åsb. 1928NONorwegian politician (1928–2024)
• Berit Lindholmb. 1934SESwedish actor and singer (1934-2023)
• Bibi Anderssonb. 1935SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1935–2019)
• Berit Mørdre Lammedalb. 1940NONorwegian cross-country skier (1940-2016)
• Berit Nesheimb. 1945NONorwegian filmmaker
• Berit Reiss-Andersenb. 1954NONorwegian lawyer, writer and politician
• Berit Andnorb. 1954SESwedish politician, minister for social affairs and county governor
• Berit Aunlib. 1956NOcross-country skier
• Berit Vanderb. 1998DEGerman actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 335 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Berit?

We estimate roughly 45 thousand people bear Berit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Berit have the most bearers?

We estimate about 23 thousand people bear Berit in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled berit.

Where is Berit most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berit is densest in Norway — about 1 in 371 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.

How common is Berit compared with other names?

In Sweden, Berit is the 217th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.

Is Berit a male or female name?

Berit is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Berit mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name, variant of Birgitta or Birgitte