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The name appears in folk tales in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland and its meaning is uncertain.
Some theories:
1) Finnish poika = 'boy', 'son', Swedish pojke = 'boy' [1] [2]
2) Finnish peikko = 'troll' [3] [2]
3) Norwegian peik = 'prank', 'trick', 'joke' [2]
4) The Norwegian author Barbra Ring used it as a short form of Pavel Benedict for her novel 'Peik' [1] [3] [2]
5) In Denmark, Peik is a Frisian pet form of Pay (variant form of Paulus)
Peik | ♂ |
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Pejk | ♂ |
|
- Danish | |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peiks |
- Finnish | |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peikin |
Partitive: | Peikiä |
- Norwegian | |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peiks |
- Swedish | |
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Nominative: | Peik |
Genitive: | Peiks |
Finland (Swedish Language) |
8 October |
Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
Finland[5] |
|
n.a. |
284 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
284 |
Sweden[6] |
|
11 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17 |
Denmark[7] |
|
4 | n.a. |
1 | n.a. |
3 | n.a. |
Iceland[8] |
|
1 | 1 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
50 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
50 | n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
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 Peik.