Gittan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Birgitta (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ɡitan/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Gittan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 289 people, counted by Skatteverket.
- SESweden1 in 35K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 796K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
289 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gittan
- Swedish:/ɡitan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the female given name Birgitta
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gittan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
289 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gittan Glansb. 1960SESwedish musician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gittan mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Birgitta Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gittan?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Birgitta.
- How do you pronounce Gittan?
- In Swedish /ɡitan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gittan a male or female name?
- Gittan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Gittan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 289 people named Gittan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gittan most common?
- Gittan is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gittan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 289 people named Gittan, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gittanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Gittan” — ranked 4030th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.