Uffe

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

1) Frisian pet form of names starting with Ulf- or ending with -ulf, see ULF for meaning ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

2) Frisian variant form of Offe, a Frisian short form of Old High German names starting with Od-, see AUD for meaning ^[1]

Related Names

Offe	♂
Uffe	♂
Uffi	♂
Uffo	♂

See also Ove

Further Information

Frisian variant forms include Ufe, Uffke, Uffko, Ufke, Ufko, Ufo ^{[1] [5]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	2943	n.a
Sweden[8]		0	0	67	85
Norway[9]		0	0	6	13
Finland[10]		n.a.	2	n.a	13
#: 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 Uffe.

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

References

1. ↑ Manno Peters Tammena: Ostfriesische Vornamen von Aafke bis Zwaantje (2007)
2. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
6. ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2002)
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi