Wencke

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Wenke (see also -cke) [1]

Related Names

See Wenke

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Wencke
Genitive: Wenckes
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Wencke
Genitive: Wenckes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Wencke
Genitive: Wenckes

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Namesakes

Wenche Synnøve Myhre, Norwegian singer, *February 15th, 1947 (in Germany, she spells her name Wencke in order to avoid confusion concerning the pronunciation of her name)

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&
Denmark Denmark[3]
33
n.a.
33
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[4]
16 25 16 25 0 0
Norway Norway[5]
191
n.a.
191
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
1
n.a.
1 0 0
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 Wencke.


References

  1. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  4. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/