Elke
Elke is a female given name .
variants
- Alkene
- Elka
- Ilka
Origin and meaning
The name comes from Frisian and was derived from the name Adelheid . Elke is the short form of the pet form to Adelheid: Adelheid → Adelke → Elke
distribution
At the beginning of the 20th century, the name Elke was hardly common. From the mid-twenties onwards, its popularity rose rapidly. From the mid-thirties to the mid-forties, the name was among the ten most common female first names of the respective year. Then its popularity gradually declined at first, quickly falling in the mid-1970s. Since the mid-eighties, hardly any newborns have been named Elke.
name day
- December 16 (Adelheid), February 5
Name bearers
- Elke Arendt (* 1939), German actress
- Elke Best (* 1956), German pop singer
- Elke Clijsters (* 1985), Belgian tennis player
- Elke Erb (* 1938), German poet and writer
- Elke Ferner (* 1958), German politician
- Elke Gebhardt (* 1983), German racing cyclist
- Elke Haltaufderheide (* 1940), German film producer and actress
- Elke Hartmann (* 1969), German ancient historian
- Elke Heidenreich (* 1943), German author, cabaret artist, presenter and journalist.
- Elke Herrmann (moderator) (1942–2009), German journalist, moderator and editor
- Elke Herrmann (lawyer) (* 1947), German legal scholar
- Elke Herrmann (politician) (1956–2017), German politician (independent), MdL Saxony (for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
- Elke Hoff (* 1957), German politician
- Elke Karsten (* 1995), Argentine handball player
- Elke Kast (1946–1993), German television announcer
- Elke Koska (* approx. 1947), German actress and art manager
- Elke Kruse (* 1958), German musician
- Elke Leonhard (* 1949), German publicist
- Elke Martens (* 1956), German pop singer, copywriter, actress and presenter.
- Elke Müller (1940–2014), German politician
- Elke Reinke (* 1958), German politician
- Elke Richter (table tennis player) (* 1944), German table tennis player
- Elke Richter (soccer player) (* 1960), German soccer player
- Elke Rock (* 1983), Austrian radio and television presenter
- Elke Schmitter (* 1961), German journalist and writer
- Elke Seidel born Sternberg (* 1948), German politician
- Elke Sommer (* 1940), German actress
- Elke Walther (* 1967), German soccer player
- Elke Schall-Süß born. Schall (* 1973), German table tennis player
- Elke Winkens (* 1970), Austrian-German actress
- Elke Wülfing (* 1947), German politician
- Elke Steiner (* 1971), German comic artist and illustrator
- Elke Van Gorp (* 1995), Belgian soccer player
- Elke Zimmer (* 1966), German politician
Popular culture
- Elke , a song by the punk rock band Die Ärzte from their album That's not the whole truth ... (1988)
- Elke sein , a song by the punk band EL * KE (2005)
- Elke is a character in Emma Gündel's girls' books (10 volumes, 1930s to 1950s)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst J. Kleinschuster: The Ullstein book of first names. UTB 35763, Berlin, 1998
- ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"