Pelle

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Swedish pet form of Per, Petter and Peter (see Petrus) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Danish pet form of Peder (see Petrus) ^[4]

3) Finnish short form of Pellervo ^[3]

Related Names

Pelle	♂
Pälle	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1370 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		0	0	1189	1593
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	938	n.a
Norway[7]		0	0	119	156
Finland[8]		0	0	n.a	46
#: 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^[5][6][7][8]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi