Wenche

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish

Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Wenke ^[1]

Name Day

Norway

17 August

Further Information

Namesakes

Wenche Synnøve Myhre, Norwegian singer, *February 15th, 1947 (in Germany, she spells her name Wencke in order to avoid confusion concerning the pronunciation of her name)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[2]		9533	14453	0	0
Sweden[3]		358	484	0	0
Denmark[4]		137	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	16	n.a	3
#: 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.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[2]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [2] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi