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Abbe
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Origin and Meaning
1) Old Swedish form of Abbi [1] [2]
2) Swedish pet form of Abraham [3] [2]
3) Variant form of Abbo [4] [3]
4) Swedish pet form of Albin [3]
5) Swedish pet form of Abel
Related Names
| Abbe | ♂ |   |
 
|
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Abbason |
|
| Abbesson |
|
Female
| Abbadotter |
|
| Abbesdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Old Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Abbe |
| Genitive: | Abba |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Abbe |
| Genitive: | Abbes |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 30 people were named Abbe (percentage of first or only given name: 47 %) [5]
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[6] |
|
1122 | 1333 | 4 | 7 | 1118 | 1326 |
 Finland[7] |
  |
n.a. |
36 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
36 |
 Denmark[8] |
 |
1 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
 Norway[9] |
|
5 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
5 | n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
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References
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/