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English name meaning 'mischievous fairy', probably from pouke = 'devil, evil spirit', from Old English puca, pucel = 'goblin' (cognate with Old Norse puki = 'devil, fiend')
The name of a mischievous sprite, originally a more sinister and evil spirit (disguised name: Robin Goodfellow) who appears in William Shakespear's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) [1] [2]
Puck | ♀ |
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Puk | ♀ |
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Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Sweden[3] |
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70 | 148 | 61 | 127 | 9 | 21 |
Denmark[4] |
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5 | n.a. |
5 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
Finland[5] |
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n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 |
Norway[6] |
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4 | n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
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0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Puck.