Dyveke

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

1) Frisian pet form of Old High German names starting with Diet- (see name element ÞJOÐ)

2) Frisian düveke = 'little dove' (folk-etymological interpretation) ^[1]

Related Names

Duve	♀
Duveke	♀
Dyvecke	♀
Dyveke	♀
Dyvekke	♀
Dyvike	♀

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1912 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		106	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[3]		87	112	0	0
Sweden[4]		12	43	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	4	n.a	4
#: 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 Dyveke.

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

References

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