Åke

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Male Male Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Áki [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

2) Younger form of Akaz [2]

Related Names

Åke
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 Swedish Swedish
Aake
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Finish Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish

Combinations

For combinations see ÅKE (name element)

Grammar

Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Åke
Genitive: Åka
Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Åke
Genitive: Åkes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Åke
Genitive: Åken
Partitive: Åkea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Åke
Genitive: Åkes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Åke
Genitive: Åkes

Name Days

Norway Norway

8 May

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

8 May

Sweden Sweden

8 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 118,271 people were named Åke (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [7]

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[9]
13345 77300 0 9 13345 77291
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
4733 0 0
n.a.
4733
Denmark Denmark[11]
13
n.a.
0
n.a.
13
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
108
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
108
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[13]
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Åke (m) Sources: [9][11][12][10]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Åke (m) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Åke (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/