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Puck

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

English name meaning 'mischievous fairy', probably from pouke = 'devil, evil spirit', from Old English puca, pucel = 'goblin' (cognate with Old Norse puki = 'devil, fiend')

The name of a mischievous sprite, originally a more sinister and evil spirit (disguised name: Robin Goodfellow) who appears in William Shakespear's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) [1] [2]

Related Names

Puck ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Puk ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish

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]
70 148 61 127 9 21
Denmark Denmark[4]
5
n.a.
 5
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 4
n.a.
 4 0 0
Norway Norway[6]
4
n.a.
 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Puck.


References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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