Birgithe
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Birgithe is a given name, most frequently recorded in Denmark. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script.
- GLGreenland1 in 669◐
- DKDenmark1 in 57K
- NONorway1 in 83K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 463 | 53% |
| NO Norway | 288 | 33% |
| GL Greenland | 87 | 10% |
| GH Ghana | 7 | 1% |
| GB United Kingdom | 6 | 1% |
≈851 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Danish56565%
- Norwegian Bokmål19823%
- Norwegian516%
- English152%
- German101%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 565 | 65% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 198 | 23% |
| Norwegian | 51 | 6% |
| English | 15 | 2% |
| German | 10 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 87 |
| 2012 | 82 |
| 2013 | 79 |
| 2014 | 74 |
| 2015 | 73 |
| 2016 | 74 |
| 2017 | 73 |
| 2018 | 72 |
| 2019 | 67 |
| 2020 | 65 |
| 2021 | 62 |
GL Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) — 11 years between 2011–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Birgithe Kühleb. 1762NONorwegian journalist
- Annette Ankerb. 1851NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian genre and landscape painter (1851-1885)
- Anna Birgithe Hafstadb. 1853NONorwegian missionary
- Birgithe Th. Hoeghb. 1971badminton player
- Birgithe Kosovicb. 1972DKDanish writer
- Birgithe Ruudbotanist
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●
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 198 | #4,828 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 107 | #1,519 |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2011 | 87 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2012 | 82 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2013 | 79 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2016 | 74 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2014 | 74 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2017 | 73 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2015 | 73 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2018 | 72 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2019 | 67 | — |
| GL Greenland | Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5) | 2020 | 65 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Birgithe?
- Our records include 851 bearers of Birgithe across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Birgithe have the most bearers?
- Birgithe is most frequently recorded in Denmark.
- Is Birgithe a male or female name?
- Birgithe 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Birgithe”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.