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Ebbe

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Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

1) Nordic form of Ebbo [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

2) Danish short form of Esbjørn and its variants (see Ǣsbiǫrn) [1] [2] [3] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

3) Danish short form of Enbjørn (see Ærinbiǫrn) [1] [2] [3] [7] [8] [10]

Related Names

Eb ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Ebbe ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Old Norse Old Swedish Swedish
Ebbi ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Faroese Icelandic Old Danish
Ebe ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish
Æbbe ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Old Swedish
Æbbi ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Old Norse

See also Ebke, Ef

For female forms see Ebba, Ebbeline

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Ebbesen Denmark Norway
Ebbesson Sweden

Female

Ebbesdatter Denmark Norway
Ebbesdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Ebbe
Genitive: Ebbes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Ebbe
Genitive: Ebben
Partitive: Ebbeä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Ebbe
Genitive: Ebbes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Ebbe
Genitive: Ebbes

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

13 October

Sweden Sweden

6 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Ebbe Carsten Hornemann Hertzberg (11 April 1847 – 2 October 1912), Norwegian professor and social economist
  • Ebbe Harald Lieberath (25 June 1871 - 1 November 1937), founder of Swedish Scouting
  • Ebbe Rode (10 May 1910 - 23 May 1998), Danish actor
  • Ebbe Kløvedal Reich (7 March 1940 - 23 April 2005), Danish author

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 5,240 people were named Ebbe (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [12]
  • Ebbe Skammelsson, main character in a medieval Swedish ballad

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[13]
4275 7144 2 3 4273 7141
Denmark Denmark[14]
2764
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 2764
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 112 0 0
n.a.
 112
Greenland Greenland[16]
6 21
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[17]
196
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 196
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[18]
0 1
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Ebbe (m) Sources: [13][14][17][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Ebbe (m) Sources: [19]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Rikard Hornby: Danske Personnavne (1978)
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  18. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  19. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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