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Pelle

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Swedish pet form of Per, Petter and Peter (see Petrus) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2) Danish pet form of Peder (see Petrus) [8]

3) Finnish short form of Pellervo [3]

Related Names

Pele ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Greenlandic
Pelle ♂
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 Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Pälle ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Pelle
Genitive: Pelles
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Pelle
Genitive: Pellen
Partitive: Pelleä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Pelle
Genitive: Pelles
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Pelle
Genitive: Pelles

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 178 people were named Pelle (percentage of first or only given name: 72 %) [9]

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[10]
1935 2839 0 0 1935 2839
Denmark Denmark[11]
1987
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 1987
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
 62 0 0
n.a.
 62
Greenland Greenland[13]
3 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
264
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 264
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Pelle (m) Sources: [10][11][15][12]


References

  1. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  4. ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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