Onno

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Onno is a male given name of (East) Frisian origin from the area around Groningen and East Frisia .

The feminine form is Onna .

origin

Onno is a diminutive from (East) Frisian. The stem of the name is hardly recognizable, however, so that a clear origin is difficult to prove.

  1. According to Tammena, the name probably comes from the Old Saxon "unnan" (German: "gönnen"). Raveling refers next to "Unnan" on medium-Dutch ( "treat" as well) "onnan". According to the Duden, the name probably comes from the Old High German “gunnen” or Central Dutch “go-onnen” or “onnen” (both in German with the meaning “gönnen”).
    According to these deductions, Onno can be translated as “Der Gönnende”.
  2. According to Seibicke, Onno is the two-stemmed Low German short form of compositions with Od .

Onno is also a male Armenian given name.

variants

Other forms are: One, Onne, Onna , Onke, Onko, Onka, Onneke, Onneka, Ontje, Ontjo, Ontja, Ontke, Ontko, Unne, Unno, Untje, Unke, Uniko; when derived from two-stemmed names also: Omme, Ommo, Umme, Ummo, Umma, Uma.

Historically, the forms ending in -o have been used (almost) exclusively as male nicknames, those ending in -a as feminine nicknames, while the forms ending in -e are not gender-linked.

Well-known namesake

First name

family name

  • Ferdinand Onno (* 1881 as Ferdinand Onowotschek; † 1969), Austrian actor

Individual evidence

  1. a b c The large first name dictionary . Duden-Verlag, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 3-411-06083-2 , pp. 322 .
  2. a b Manno Peters Tammena: naming in East Friesland. Personal names, patronymic names. Origin, development, decline . 1st edition. Verlag Soltau-Kurier-Norden, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939870-59-3 , p. 763 .
  3. Irma Raveling: The East Frisian first names. Origin, meaning and distribution . 2nd, improved edition. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1972, p. 28 .
  4. Wilfried Seibicke: First names . Publishing house for registry offices, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 2002.