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From: Robert Heiling <>
Subject: [GEN-NORDIC] Re: Given-name "Inger"
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:44:34 -0700
References: <3b69b730.19374930@nntp.uio.no>, <3B69E6E5.D78B3DA8@qwest.net>, <Upra7.10$Ly2.109@news1.oke.nextra.no>


Harald Storaker wrote:

> Are you asking for a procentage chance? I have not got accurat statistics, but I guess it is close
> to 50-50 (for Inger).

Thank you and yes! Another way of asking the question would have been to ask whether it was more
likely for Swedish or Norwegian parents to name a daughter Inger in 1830. Your 50-50 tells me what I
wanted to know.

Bob

> "Robert Heiling" <> skrev i melding news:...
> > Alf Christophersen wrote: <snip>
> >
> > > On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:00:03 -0700, Robert Heiling <>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hej
> > > >
> > > >If a woman born ~1830 was named Inger, would she have more likely to
> > > >have been Norwegian or Swedish?
> > >
> > > I'm afraid she could have been from all the three nordic countries :-)
> >
> > Thanks Alf, but that wasn't the question. :-)
> >
> > Let me ask a couple of different questions. If a man born ~1830 was named
> > Ludvig, would he have more likely been German or English? If a man born
> > ~1830 was named Gunnar, would he more likely have been French or Swedish?
> >
> > That's the type of question I was asking.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >

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