Berit
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Swedish: a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/brɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Norway it is the 88th most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 371(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 445
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 371 (inferred from the name graph)
22,908 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, variant of Birgitta or Birgitte
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Berit is read(measured from records)
Berit is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Norwegian24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berit in Norwegian.
- German18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berit in German.
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berit in English.
- Swedish13%
Berit är en svensk och norsk dialektal form av → Birgitta. En variantform är Böret, tidigare vanligt i de västligaste landskapen. I den rikssvenska almanackan 13 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 1 februari.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish13%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berit 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #212 | 22,908 | 1 in 445 | 23K | Berit | 65 |
| NO Norway | #88 | 14,718 | 1 in 371 | 49K | Berit | 102 |
| DK Denmark | #198 | 4,852 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.9K | Berit | 100 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,084 | 1 in 5.1K | 2.4K | Berit | 17 |
| US United States | — | 976 | 1 in 341K | 947 | Berit | 140 |
| EE Estonia | #599 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 549 | Berit | 19 |
22,908 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Berit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, Third-person singular (hura), taking first-person singular (niri) as indirect object, imperative form of jariatu (“to flow”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, third-person singular present indicative of berīdan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, brit milah, bris
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edel Hætta Eriksenb. 1921NOnot in their usual nameNorthern Saami schoolteacher and politician (1921–2023)
- Berit Åsb. 1928NONorwegian politician (1928–2024)
- Berit Lindholmb. 1934SESwedish actor and singer (1934-2023)
- Bibi Anderssonb. 1935SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1935–2019)
- Berit Mørdre Lammedalb. 1940NONorwegian cross-country skier (1940-2016)
- Berit Nesheimb. 1945NONorwegian filmmaker
- Berit Reiss-Andersenb. 1954NONorwegian lawyer, writer and politician
- Berit Andnorb. 1954SESwedish politician, minister for social affairs and county governor
- Berit Aunlib. 1956NOcross-country skier
- Berit Vanderb. 1998DEGerman 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).
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Berit come from?
- a female given name, variant of Birgitta or Birgitte Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Berit?
- A machine transcription gives /brɪt/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- What does the name Berit mean?
- In Swedish, a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta
- Is Berit a male or female name?
- Berit 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 are other forms of the name Berit?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Berit have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Berit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berit.
- Where is Berit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berit is densest in Norway — about 1 in 371 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Berit?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 22,908 people named Berit, about 1 in 445 residents.
- How common is Berit compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Berit is the 212th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Berit?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beritThe 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, “Berit” — the 212th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.