Detlef

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Low German form of Dietleib ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Detlef	♂
Detlev	♂
Detlof	♂
Detlov	♂

See also Ditlef

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1399 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		0	0	98	158
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	72	n.a
Norway[6]		0	0	26	48
Finland[7]		n.a.	3	n.a	53
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Detlef.

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi