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Dirk

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Low German and Dutch short form of Diederik (see Diederich) and Didrik (see Dietrich) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Dirch ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Greenlandic Old Danish Swedish
Dirck ♂ Danish
Dirk ♂
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

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dirk
Genitive: Dirks
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dirk
Genitive: Dirkin
Partitive: Dirkiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dirk
Genitive: Dirks
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dirk
Genitive: Dirks

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 55 people were named Dirk (percentage of first or only given name: 80 %) [7]


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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]
202 294 0 0 202 294
Denmark Denmark[9]
176
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 176
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 331 0 0
n.a.
 331
Iceland Iceland[11]
0 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
164
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 164
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dirk.


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  5. ↑ Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  6. ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  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. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  13. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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