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Pekka

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Male Male Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Finnish form of Petka [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Beahkká ♂
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Sami
Begá ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Sami
Behkká ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Sami
Pekka ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Pekko ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Peko ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish

See also Peska

Combinations

Name
Element    		 Example
Juha see Juhapekka
OL see Ollipekka

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Pekka
Genitive: Pekkas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Pekka
Genitive: Pekan
Partitive: Pekkaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Pekka
Genitive: Pekkas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Pekka
Genitive: Pekkas

Name Day

Finland Finland

29 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 546 people were named Pekka (percentage of first or only given name: 68 %) [5]

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&
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 103982
n.a.
 5
n.a.
 103977
Sweden Sweden[7]
1107 2228 0 0 1107 2228
Denmark Denmark[8]
6
n.a.
 0
n.a.
 6
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
32
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 32
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
0 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
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 Pekka.


References

  1. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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