Birta

given name · Icelandic · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Birta is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: light, brightness.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 334◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 24K
  • SESweden1 in 378K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.5K ●

across 4 countries

Sources
20 ●

313 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 334 ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

BirthaLatin · Spanish●155 records

Locally spelled Birtha in US United States, PE Peru, BR Brazil and 1 more.

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●

light, brightness

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Birta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland1,050—1 in 3341.1K——
DK Denmark243—1 in 24K243——
US United States219161 rec.1 in 1.5M219Birtha20
SE Sweden27—1 in 378K27——
PE Peru2522 rec.——Birtha8
AR Argentina1617 rec.——Birta8
RO Romania1428 rec.——Birta12
CL Chile130 rec.—1Birta7
BR Brazil128 rec.——Birtha7
MX Mexico1112 rec.——Birtha2
UY Uruguay109 rec.—1Birta2
ES Spain—8 rec.—57—7

Roughly 1.1K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 334). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Icelandic3K69%
  • English48711%
  • Danish2476%
  • Hindi1934%
  • Spanish822%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Icelandic2,99369%
English48711%
Danish2476%
Hindi1934%
Spanish822%

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

Other names spelled this way◐

Birta is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian given name245 records spelled Birta4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy

    Also written Bîrta, Bîrță, Bîrtă

  • French given name175 records spelled Birta4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Birtha, Bîrta

  • Ukrainian surname117 records spelled Birta6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Бірта, Бирта, Bîrta

  • a separate given name51 records spelled Birta2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Birtā

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Birta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, ditch opened in a field or meadow (for evenly distributing water)

    as a wordkaikki.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●

05101520200520102015202020 · 2018

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Birta in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2004–2020
Yearrecords
200410
200510
201010
201111
201212
201312
201414
201513
201616
201716
201820
201918
202017

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 13 years between 2004–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 28 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Birta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261.1K#129
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023521#87
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005319#115
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—73#2,002
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—57#41,000
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—57#40,491
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—27#20,255
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—22#18,069
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201820—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201918—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202017—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201716—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Birta?
We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Birta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Birta have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Birta in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Birta most common?
Birta is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 334 people carrying it.
Is Birta a male or female name?
Birta 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 Birta mean?
Recorded meaning: light, brightness
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Birta”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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