May-Britt
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
May-Britt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 6.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 19K
- SESweden1 in 46K
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.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈870 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maybritt in DK Denmark, NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
May-Britt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #765 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 4.3K | May-Britt | 42 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 1 | May-Britt | 47 |
| DK Denmark | #796 | 313 | 1 in 19K | 313 | Maybritt | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 223 | 1 in 46K | 223 | May-Britt | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 115 | 1 in 150K | 115 | Maybritt | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 52 | 1 in 107K | 91 | — | 2 |
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 — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- May-Britt Buch-Kattrupb. 1962DKnot in their usual nameDanish politician
- May-Britt Moserb. 1963NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
- May-Britt Öhmanb. 1966SEnot in their usual nameResearcher at Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University
- Maya Vikb. 1980NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer, songwriter, and bass player
- May-Britt Tessemb. 2000NOnot in their usual nameresearcher
- May-Britt MobachNLnot in their usual nameDutch creator
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4.3K | #696 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 223 | #4,844 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 206 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 202 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 201 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 201 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 199 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 199 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 198 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 191 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 189 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is May-Britt a male or female name?
- May-Britt 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.
- In which country does May-Britt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 867 people named May-Britt in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled May-Britt.
- How common is the name May-Britt?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 313 people named May-Britt, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is May-Britt compared with other names?
- In Norway, May-Britt is the 765th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about May-Britt?
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/may-brittThe 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, “May-Britt” — the 765th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.