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Åke
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Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Origin and Meaning
1) Younger form of Áki [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
| Åke | ♂ |   |
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Grammar
| - Old Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Åke |
| Genitive: | Åka |
Name Days
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8 May |
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8 May |
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8 May |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Karl Åke Peter Edwardson (né Edvardsson, born 10 March 1953), Swedish author
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[5] |
 |
0 | 1 | 16002 | 83322 |
| Norway[6] |
 |
0 | n.a. | 117 | n.a. |
| Denmark[7] |
 |
0 | n.a. | 13 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
 |
0 | 0 | n.a. | 4629 |
| #: 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi