Uwe

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Male Male Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Frisian variant form of Ove [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Ove

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Uwe
Genitive: Uwes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Uwe
Genitive: Uwen
Partitive: Uwea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Uwe
Genitive: Uwes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Uwe
Genitive: Uwes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 115 people were named Uwe (percentage of first or only given name: 75 %) [6]


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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[7]
232 371 0 0 232 371
Denmark Denmark[8]
337
n.a.
0
n.a.
337
n.a.
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
370 0 0
n.a.
370
Iceland Iceland[10]
3 9
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
113
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
113
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
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 Uwe.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Manno Peters Tammena: Ostfriesische Vornamen von Aafke bis Zwaantje (2007)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/