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Detlef

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Low German form of Dietleib [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Detlef ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Detlev ♂
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 Swedish

See also Detlof, Ditlef, Telef, Tjelluf

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Detlef
Genitive: Detlefs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Detlef
Genitive: Detlefin
Partitive: Detlefiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Detlef
Genitive: Detlefs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Detlef
Genitive: Detlefs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 56 people were named Detlef (percentage of first or only given name: 52 %) [6]

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[8]
93 148 0 0 93 148
Denmark Denmark[9]
62
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 62
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 103 0 0
n.a.
 103
Norway Norway[10]
36
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 36
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Detlef.


References

  1. ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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