Kate f

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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Kate m for the male version of this name.

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

English short form of Katherine ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Cate	♀
Cathe	♀
Kate	♀
Kathe	♀

For more variant forms see also Ket

Name Day

Norway

18 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1840 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		2971	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[5]		746	1209	0	2
Norway[6]		550	1279	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	201	n.a	2
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi