Palle

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger form of Palli

Related Names

See Palli

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Pallesen

Female

Pallesdatter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Palle
Genitive:	Palles

- Finnish
Nominative:	Palle
Genitive:	Pallen
Partitive:	Pallea

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Palle
Genitive:	Palles

- Swedish
Nominative:	Palle
Genitive:	Palles

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
  • Riberhus Lens Jordebog 1619
• Norway:
  • 16th century
• Sweden:
  • 1660 (Skåne)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1920-1949
  • 1970-
• Norway:
  • 1940-1945
• Denmark:
  • 1950-1969

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Rogaland
• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • Fyn
  • Sjælland
  • Jylland
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige

Namesakes

• Palle Lauring (né Palle Lauring Andersen, 16 October 1909 – 3 October 1996), Danish author
• Palle Lykke Jensen (4 November 1936 – 19 April 2013), Danish cyclist
• Palle Mikkelborg (born 6 March 1941), Danish jazz trumpeter

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 127 people were named Palle (percentage of first or only given name: 89 %)

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		6756	n.a.	0	n.a.	6756	n.a.
Sweden		181	296	0	0	181	296
Greenland		22	41	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	30	0	0	n.a.	30
Iceland		1	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		40	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	40	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 Palle.