Dick

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending in -drik/-dric/-drick ^[1]

2) English pet form of Richard ^[1]

Related Names

Dich	♂
Dick	♂
Dicky	♂

For female forms see Dicka

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 February

Sweden

7 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1866 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		0	0	3434	5369
Denmark[3]		0	n.a.	81	n.a
Norway[4]		0	0	20	69
Finland[5]		n.a.	2	n.a	409
#: 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 Dick.

Sources: ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi