Birthe
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Birthe is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Danish and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Birthe är en dansk form av → Birgitta.
- DKDenmark1 in 407◐
- NONorway1 in 8.2K
- SESweden1 in 16K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 3 ●
- 1 in 407 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
15 records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Бирте in RU Russia.
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●
Birthe är en dansk form av → Birgitta.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 14,420 | — | 1 in 407 | 14K | — | — |
| NO Norway | 667△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 8.2K | 2.3K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 630 | — | 1 in 16K | 630 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 141△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 123K | 141 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 129△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 2.6M | 129 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 30 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 70 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 22 | 0 rec. | 1 in 253K | 65 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Бирте | 3 |
| PL Poland | 4 | — | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 3 | — | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | — | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | — | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 14K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 407). 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●
- Danish63K86%
- German4K5%
- Norwegian Bokmål2.2K3%
- English1.7K2%
- Norwegian5231%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 62,642 | 86% |
| German | 4,010 | 5% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 2,204 | 3% |
| English | 1,715 | 2% |
| Norwegian | 523 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 10 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 16 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 23 |
| 1965 | 18 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 17 |
| 1968 | 17 |
| 1969 | 26 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1971 | 18 |
| 1972 | 18 |
| 1973 | 26 |
| 1974 | 28 |
| 1975 | 16 |
| 1976 | 20 |
| 1977 | 15 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 16 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 16 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 52 years between 1945–2002. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marie Kroghb. 1874DKnot in their usual nameDanish physician, physiologist and nutritionist
- Birte Christoffersenb. 1924DKnot in their usual nameDanish diver
- Birthe Wilkeb. 1936DKDanish singer
- Birte Tove Sørensenb. 1945DKnot in their usual nameDanish actress (1945–2016)
- Birthe Kjaerb. 1948DKDanish singer (born 1948)
- Minken Fosheimb. 1956NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian actress (1956-2018)
- Birte Siechb. 1967DEnot in their usual nameEast German rower
- Birte Weigangb. 1968DEnot in their usual nameEast German swimmer
- Birthe Wolterb. 1981DEGerman actress
- Birte Schnöinkb. 1984DEnot in their usual nameGerman 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●
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 220 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Birthe?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Birthe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Birthe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Birthe in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Birthe most common?
- Birthe is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 407 people carrying it.
- Is Birthe a male or female name?
- Birthe 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 Birthe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Birthe är en dansk form av → Birgitta.
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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, “Birthe”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.