Dick

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending with -drik/-dric/-drick [1]

2) English pet form of Richard [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Dich
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Danish Swedish
Dick
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Dickie Danish Finish Swedish
Dicky
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Finish Swedish

For female forms see Dicka

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dick
Genitive: Dicks
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dick
Genitive: Dickin
Partitive: Dickiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dick
Genitive: Dicks
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dick
Genitive: Dicks

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

7 February

Sweden Sweden

7 February

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 4446 people were named Dick (percentage of first or only given name: 91 %) [9]

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[10]
3020 4957 0 0 3020 4957
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
421 0 0
n.a.
421
Denmark Denmark[12]
74
n.a.
0
n.a.
74
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[13]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[14]
59
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
59
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
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 Dick.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  6. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  7. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  8. Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  15. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/