Nordic Names

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Loreley

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

New German name

Loreley is the name of a rock at the edge of the Rhine near Koblenz. In the 19th century, first Clemens Brentano and later Heinrich Heine wrote poems about a legend based on a romantic reinterpretation of its name as a female first name (due to its resemblance to the name Lore: The siren Loreley lives on the rock and unwittingly lures boatmen to their death by combing her long blonde hair and singing. [1] [2])

The second part of the place name ley derives from a Celtic word meaning 'rock, cliff', the first part is of unknown origin and meaning. Theories include

1) Middle High German luren = 'to lure, to lie in wait'

2) Middle High German lorren, lurren = 'to cry, to shout'

3) Rhine dialect lureln = 'to murmur'

Related Names

Lorelai ♀
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 Finish Swedish
Lorelay ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Lorelei ♀
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 Finish Swedish
Loreley ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Swedish
Lóreley ♀
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 Icelandic

Further Information

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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[3]
5 13 5 13 0 0
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
 8
n.a.
 8 0 0
Iceland Iceland[5]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[6]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[8]
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 Loreley.


References

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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