Ditlev

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Greenlandic
Swedish
Norwegian
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish variant spelling of Ditlef

Related Names

See Ditlef

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ditlevsen
Ditlevsson

Female

Ditlevsdatter
Ditlevsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Ditlev
Genitive:	Ditlevs

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ditlev
Accusative:	Ditlev
Dative:	Ditlev
Genitive:	Ditlevs

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Ditlev
Genitive:	Ditlevs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Ditlev
Genitive:	Ditlevs

Name Days

Denmark

2 October

Faroe Islands

2 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 15th century
• Iceland: In the census of 1801

Period of Usage

• Norway: 18th century - ca 1930

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1899
  • 1920-1929
  • 1940-1949
• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • 1960-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Sønderjylland
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Bornholm
• Norway
  • Nordland
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Västsverige

Namesakes

• Christian Ditlev Frederik, Count of Reventlow (11 March 1748 – 11 October 1827), Danish statesman and reformer

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Ditlev (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %)

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		564	n.a.	0	n.a.	564	n.a.
Greenland		7	27	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		2	23	0	2	2	21
Norway		23	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	23	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	1	0	0	n.a.	1
#: 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 Ditlev.