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Female Name
Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling of Wenke (see also -che) [1] [2] [3]
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Wenche
|
Genitive: |
Wenches
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Wenche
|
Genitive: |
Wenchen
|
Partitive: |
Wencheä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Wenche
|
Genitive: |
Wenches
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Wenche
|
Genitive: |
Wenches
|
Name Day
Norway
|
17 August
|
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Namesakes
- Eva Wenche Steenfeldt-Foss Stang (5 December 1917 – 28 March 2011), Norwegian actress
- Wenche Bryn Lowzow (27 May 1926 – 24 September 2016), Norwegian politician
- Wenche Synnøve Myhre (born 15 February 1947), Norwegian singer. In Germany, she spells her name Wencke in order to avoid confusion concerning the pronunciation of her name
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[4] |
|
344 |
480 |
344 |
480 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[5] |
|
124 |
n.a. |
124 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[6] |
|
n.a. |
19 |
n.a. |
19 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[7] |
|
2 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[8] |
|
13621 |
n.a. |
13621 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[9] |
|
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. |
Top List Ranking
Sources: [10]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables