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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Agneta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Agneta
Grammar
- Old Swedish |
Nominative: |
Agnete
|
Genitive: |
Agnetes
|
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Agnete
|
Genitive: |
Agnetes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Agnete
|
Genitive: |
Agneten
|
Partitive: |
Agnetea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Agnete
|
Genitive: |
Agnetes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Agnete
|
Genitive: |
Agnetes
|
Name Day
Norway
|
21 January
|
Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 278 people were named Agnete (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %) [8]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[9] |
|
1909 |
n.a. |
1909 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[10] |
|
79 |
253 |
79 |
253 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[11] |
|
n.a. |
79 |
n.a. |
79 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[12] |
|
6 |
25 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
|
548 |
n.a. |
548 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
0 |
1 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [10][9][13][11]
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/