Birthe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Birthe är en dansk form av → Birgitta
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bitˢhe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Birthe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 407(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 16K
- NLNetherlands1 in 123K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Birthe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 407 (inferred from the name graph)
14,420 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Birte in NO Norway.
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)
Birthe är en dansk form av → Birgitta.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Birthe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 14,420 | 1 in 407 | 14K | — | — |
| NO Norway | 667as Birte | 1 in 8.2K | 2.3K | Birte | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 630 | 1 in 16K | 630 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 141 | 1 in 123K | 141 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 129 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 3as Birte | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
14,420 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- 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).
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 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Birthe?
- A machine transcription gives /bitˢhe/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Birthe mean, and where does it come from?
- Birthe är en dansk form av → Birgitta. Recorded by Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon.
- 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 are other forms of the name Birthe?
- 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 Birgitte.
- In which country does Birthe have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Birthe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Birthe most common?
- Birthe is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 407 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Birthe?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 14,420 people named Birthe, about 1 in 407 residents.
What do you want to know about Birthe?
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/birtheThe 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, “Birthe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.