Berit

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.

• Norwegian:/brɪt/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Swedish:/beːrit/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

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 name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Danish13%

  a female given name, variant of Birgitta or Birgitte

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Berit, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Elin
• Ebba
• Marit
• Astrid
• Lilja

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In ang, third-person singular present indicative of berīdan

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In lad, brit milah, bris

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Berit Åsb. 1928NONorwegian politician (1928–2024)
• Bibi Anderssonb. 1935SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1935–2019)
• Berit Reiss-Andersenb. 1954NONorwegian lawyer, writer and politician

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).

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.

44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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?

It depends on the language: in Norwegian /brɪt/; in Swedish /beːrit/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Berit a male or female name?

Berit is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Norway (SSB), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), Finland (DVV) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.

What does the name Berit mean?

In Swedish, a female given name, a dialectal variant of Birgitta

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.

Which countries have the most people named Berit?

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. After it come Norway, Denmark, Finland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.