Berit

See also: berit

Danish

Proper noun

Berit

1. a female given name, variant of Birgitta or Birgitte

Estonian

Etymology

From Swedish Berit.

Proper noun

Berit

1. a female given name

Faroese

Proper noun

Berit f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Berit: Beritarson
• daughter of Berit: Beritardóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Berit
accusative	Berit
dative	Berit
genitive	Beritar

Norwegian

Etymology

Contraction of Birgitte (“Bridget”).

Proper noun

Berit

1. a female given name
   • 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian‎ (in English):

     Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

Usage notes

• One of the most popular given names in Norway since the 17th century.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 19 214 females with the given name Berit living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Berit c (genitive Berits)

1. a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta

Anagrams

• biter