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Malte
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Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Younger form of Malti [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Related Names
See Malti
Patronyms [What's That?]
Male
| Maltesen |
|
| Malteson |
|
| Maltesson |
|
Female
| Maltesdatter |
|
| Maltesdotter |
|
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Malte |
| Genitive: | Maltes |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Malte |
| Genitive: | Malten |
| Partitive: | Maltea |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Malte |
| Genitive: | Maltes |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Malte |
| Genitive: | Maltes |
Name Day
|
|
28 November |
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28 November |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
- Denmark: 14th century [8]
- Denmark (Skåne): 1475 [1] [7]
- Sweden: 1672 [1] [7]
- Norway: 17th century [4]
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Trivia
| The German pronunciation of Malte can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de. |
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[11] |
  |
6057 | 8713 | 3 | 5 | 6054 | 8708 |
| Denmark[12] |
  |
3232 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
3232 | n.a. |
| Norway[13] |
 |
110 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
110 | n.a. |
| Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
143 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
143 |
 Greenland[14] |
 |
3 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[15] |
|
1 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Top List Ranking
Sources: [16]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables