Ove

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Male Male Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Frisian and Danish name of uncertain origin. Some theories:

1) Frisian short form of Old High German names beginning with Uodal-, see AUD [1]

2) Short form of Old Frisian names beginning with *Ova- , Germanic *ob = 'active, at work' [2]

3) Modern form of Old Danish Auwe (see Aghi) [3] [4] [5]

4) Maybe related to Uffe [1]

Related Names

     
Ova ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Owa ♀ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish
Ove ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Finnish Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Owe ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Ovi ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Faroese
Uui ♂ Greenlandic
Uve ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Swedish
Uwe ♂ Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish

Name Days

Norway Norway

30 October

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

14 December

Sweden Sweden

13 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Denmark: 1434 (Skåne) [4]
Sweden: 1842 [4]

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Sweden Sweden[6] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m5.png 1 2 10148 33731
Denmark Denmark[7] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m5.png 0 n.a. 7438 n.a
Norway Norway[8] Statimg f0.pngStatimg m4.png 0 0 3336 6298
Finland Finland[9] Statimg f1.pngStatimg m4.png n.a. 3 n.a 1182
  #: 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[6][7][8][9]:Name statistics for Ove(m)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[8]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Ove(m)


Sources: [6] [7] [8] [9]

References

  1. ↑ Manno Peters Tammena: Ostfriesische Vornamen von Aafke bis Zwaantje (2007)
  2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
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