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Dorothe
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of Dorothea [1] [2]
Related Names
See Dorothea
Grammar
 - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dorothe |
| Genitive: | Dorothes |
 - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dorothe |
| Genitive: | Dorothes |
 - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Dorothe |
| Genitive: | Dorothes |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: appears in the baptism registers of Skast herred (Næsbjerg, Øse, Fåborg, Grimstrup, Årre) in the period 1656-1660 [1]
Strongest Period of Usage
- Denmark: Top 12 in the 17th century in Nakskov [3]
Namesakes
- Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (16 January 1634 – 19 February 1716), Norwegian author
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[4] |
  |
3 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
 Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
4 | n.a. |
4 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[6] |
|
1 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Iceland[7] |
  |
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[8] |
  |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Greenland[9] |
|
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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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dorothe.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/