Dorthe

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Dorte [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

See Dorte

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dorthe
Genitive: Dorthes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dorthe
Genitive: Dorthen
Partitive: Dorthea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dorthe
Genitive: Dorthes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dorthe
Genitive: Dorthes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Dorthe Kollo (née Larsen, born 17 July 1947), Danish singer

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 26 people were named Dorthe (percentage of first or only given name: 54 %) [4]

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[5]
14444
n.a.
14444
n.a.
0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[6]
238 953
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[7]
99 135 99 135 0 0
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
30
n.a.
30 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
433
n.a.
433
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 Dorthe (f) Sources: [7][5][10][8]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Dorthe (f) Sources: [11]


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. details see Name Statistic tables