Agnete

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Agneta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Agneta

Grammar

Old Swedish - Old Swedish
Nominative: Agnete
Genitive: Agnetes
Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Agnete
Genitive: Agnetes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Agnete
Genitive: Agneten
Partitive: Agnetea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Agnete
Genitive: Agnetes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Agnete
Genitive: Agnetes

Name Day

Norway Norway

21 January

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: [aŋ‘ne:tə] (key) [7]

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 278 people were named Agnete (percentage of first or only given name: 29 %) [8]

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&
Denmark Denmark[9]
1909
n.a.
1909
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[10]
79 253 79 253 0 0
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
79
n.a.
79 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
6 25
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
548
n.a.
548
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[14]
0 1
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 Agnete (f) Sources: [10][9][13][11]


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  7. Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/