Wessel

Rate this name:

5.00

(one vote)

Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian

Advertisement:

Origin and Meaning

Low German and Frisian pet form of Werner (see Warinheri)

Related Names

Vessel	♂
Wessel	♂

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Wessel
Genitive:	Wessels

- Finnish
Nominative:	Wessel
Genitive:	Wesselin
Partitive:	Wesseliä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Wessel
Genitive:	Wessels

- Swedish
Nominative:	Wessel
Genitive:	Wessels

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 18th and 19th century ; 1900-1915

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway: Møre og Romsdal

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.

Statistics

Name Count per Country

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.

Country	Commonness Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		0	3	8	22
Norway		0	n.a.	7	n.a.
Denmark		0	n.a.	6	n.a.
Finland		0	0	n.a.	7
#: 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 Wessel.

Sources: