Horst (first name)

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Horst is a male name .

origin

The oldest evidence for the name Horst comes from the Low German "Weltchronik" of Dietrich Engelhus from 1424; there the Anglo-Saxon general Horsa is called that. It is unclear whether this is an adaptation to the name of his brother Hengist ("stallion") or to the Old High German hurst ("Horst" in the sense of "bushes, scrub, hedge, forest"). The name Horsa goes back to old English hors (English horse , which corresponds to the German horse ).

name day

  • October 12th

Name bearer

First name

Fictional characters

Frequency and distribution

The first name Horst was the most frequently given boy's name in 1934. Horst Wessel, stylized as a martyr by the National Socialists, must be taken as the name model. Still, the name's popularity declined only gradually after World War II; it was not until the 1960s that there was a significant slump.

Use as a swear word

Regionally, Horst is also used as a swear word or at least a mildly disparaging term for a stupid or clumsy person, sometimes also in the variant Vollhorst .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: German Historical First Name Book . Berlin 1996-2006
  2. ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: The large first name dictionary . Duden-Verlag, Mannheim 2003
  3. ↑ a b First name Horst on Popular-vornamen.de
  4. ↑ Michael Wolffsohn; Thomas Brechenmacher: The Germans and their first names. 200 years of politics and public opinion. Diana Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1999. ISBN 3-8284-5018-0
  5. ^ Mathias Hamann: Youth language duel: Vollpfosten, Vollfrosch, Vollhorst . In: SchulSPIEGEL . Retrieved on October 2, 2014: “So on a grading scale a five, maybe just a four. Julian comes up with something else: "Voll is often combined: Vollpfosten, Vollhorst or Vollfrosch." Mr. Jerzewski smiles: "Well, in my day such a dödel was a plum."
  6. ↑ Hamann: Horst . In: LVR - The Dictionary . LVR. Retrieved on October 2, 2014: "unattractive, somewhat chubby man"