Malte

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Malti ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Related Names

See Malti

Name Day

Sweden

28 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Denmark (Skåne): 1475 ^[1]
Sweden: 1672 ^[1]
Norway: 17th century ^[4]

Namesakes

Malte Ferdinand Jacobsson, 3 April 1885 - 22 December 1966, Swedish politician

Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge is a novel by Rainer Maria Rilke (1910)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[7]		1	1	3334	5586
Denmark[8]		0	n.a.	2176	n.a
Norway[9]		0	0	26	46
Finland[10]		n.a.	4	n.a	66
#: 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.

 

Recent statistics trend^{[7][8][9][10]}:

Sources: ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
5. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
6. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
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. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi