Maj-Britt
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name, best used in the 1960s
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
Maj-Britt is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2.3K
- FIFinland1 in 6.1K
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)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
6,482 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Majbritt in DK Denmark, TN Tunisia.
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 popular in the 1920s and the 1930s
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maj-Britt is read
(measured from records)Maj-Britt is one spelling over 4 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.
- Danish39%
a female given name, best used in the 1960s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish32%
a female given name popular in the 1920s and the 1930s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maj-Britt in Finnish.
- German5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maj-Britt in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Maj-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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #533 | 6,482 | 1 in 1.6K | 6.5K | Maj-Britt | 39 |
| DK Denmark | #233 | 2,542 | 1 in 2.3K | 2.5K | Majbritt | 95 |
| FI Finland | — | 914 | 1 in 6.1K | 1.9K | Maj-Britt | 11 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Majbritt | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 602K | 1 | Maj-Britt | 40 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 518 | Maj-Britt | 17 |
6,482 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling maj-britt. 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen 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)Maj-Britt is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian, a female given name, variant of May-Britt
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)- Maj-Britt Florinb. 1905SEnot in their usual nameSwedish geologist
- Maj-Britt Erikssonb. 1914SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer
- Maj-Britt Bæhrendtzb. 1916SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer (1916-2018)
- Maj-Britt Nilssonb. 1924SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1924–2006)
- Maj-Britt Wigghb. 1952SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer
- Maj-Britt Råholmb. 1954NOnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Maj-Britt Kramerb. 1963DKnot in their usual nameDanish jazz musician
- Maj-Britt Klenkeb. 1992DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Maj-Britt Posserudb. 2000SEnot in their usual nameSwedish researcher
- Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansennot in their usual namelinguist and Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 10K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 10K | — |
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
- Where does the name Maj-Britt come from?
- a female given name popular in the 1920s and the 1930s Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Maj-Britt a male or female name?
- Maj-Britt is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and Norway (SSB).
- What does the name Maj-Britt mean?
- In Danish, a female given name, best used in the 1960s
- In which country does Maj-Britt have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Maj-Britt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Maj-Britt.
- Where is Maj-Britt most common?
- Maj-Britt is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maj-Britt?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,482 people named Maj-Britt, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Maj-Britt compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Maj-Britt is the 533rd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maj-Britt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maj-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, “Maj-Britt” — the 533rd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.