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Wessel
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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Low German and Frisian pet form of Werner (see Warinheri) [1] [2]
Related Names
| Vessel | ♂ |   |
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| Wessel | ♂ |   |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wessel |
| Genitive: | Wessels |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wessel |
| Genitive: | Wesselin |
| Partitive: | Wesseliä |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wessel |
| Genitive: | Wessels |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wessel |
| Genitive: | Wessels |
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Peter Jansen Wessel Tordenskiold (28 October 1690 – 12 November 1720), Norwegian nobleman and an eminent naval flag officer in the service of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. Wessel was his surname. [1]
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[3] |
|
9 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 25 |
| Norway[4] |
|
11 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
11 | n.a. |
| Denmark[5] |
|
8 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
8 | n.a. |
| Finland[6] |
 |
n.a. |
8 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
8 |
 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. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Wessel.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/