Birna
loc · Latin script
Meaning: female bear, she-bear
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Birna is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Iceland.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
female bear, she-bear
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Birna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: Hagstofa — population register names 2023; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Birna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In csb, synonym of żarówka (“light bulb”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, she-bear, female bear
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)
- Birna Rørslettb. 1946NONorwegian photographer
- Birna Arnbjörnsdóttirb. 1952ISIcelandic linguist
- Unnur Birna Karlsdóttirb. 1964ISIcelandic historian and writer
- Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttirb. 1966ISIcelandic politician
- Birna Petersenb. 1970ISIcelandic badminton player
- Birna Guðbjartsdóttirb. 1970ISbadminton player
- Birna Björnsdottirb. 1973ISIcelandic cyclist
- Birna Valgarðsdóttirb. 1976ISIcelandic basketball player (born 1976)
- M.B. van Riemsdijkb. 1978NLnot in their usual namePh.D. Universiteit Utrecht 2006
- Birna Berg Haraldsdóttirb. 1993IShandball player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 886 | #41 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 879 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 867 | #39 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 82 | #1,844 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,157 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 66 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 66 | #41,040 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 66 | #11,265 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 58 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 58 | #44,612 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 33 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Birna mean, and where does it come from?
- female bear, she-bear Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Birna have the most bearers?
- Birna is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
What do you want to know about Birna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birnaThe 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, “Birna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.