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The name appears in folk tales in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland and its meaning is uncertain.
Some theories:
1) Finnish poika = 'boy', 'son', Swedish pojke = 'boy' [1] [2]
2) Finnish peikko = 'troll' [3] [2]
3) Norwegian peik = 'prank', 'trick', 'joke' [2]
4) The Norwegian author Barbra Ring used it as a short form of Pavel Benedict for her novel 'Peik' [1] [3] [2]
5) In Denmark, Peik is a Frisian pet form of Pay (variant form of Paulus)
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peiks |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peikin |
Partitive: | Peikiä |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peiks |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peiks |
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8 October |
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Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
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n.a. |
284 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
284 |
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11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17 |
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4 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
3 | n.a. |
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1 | 1 | n.a. |
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50 | n.a. |
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50 | n.a. |
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0 | 0 | n.a. |
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&: 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 Peik.