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Elke

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Low German and Frisian variant form of Alka [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Short form of Elike [1]

See also -ke

Related Names

Elk ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Low German
Elka ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Icelandic Swedish
Elke ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Elke
Genitive: Elkes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Elke
Genitive: Elken
Partitive: Elkeä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Elke
Genitive: Elkes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Elke
Genitive: Elkes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
219 352 219 352 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
303
n.a.
 302
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
 117
n.a.
 117 0 0
Iceland Iceland[10]
7 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
92
n.a.
 92
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Elke.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  6. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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