Uwe

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Uwe is a male name .

origin

The origin of the name is unclear. Some consider Uwe to be a short form of names that begin with Ul- or Ud- (for example Ulrich ) and go back to Old High German uodal , "Erb-, Stammgut, Erbbesitz". Others consider the name to be an "independent Frisian short form of names that were formed from Old Island North Frisian * ova (to Germanic * ov , to be active, to put into work ')". According to Wilfried Seibicke , Uwe is a "Frisian Lall name, etymology unclear". In foreign name pages and name books there is a reference to the Scandinavian name Ove , of which Uwe is said to be a subsidiary form. Ove is then explained as “the slang form of Aghi , a short form of various names of Old Norse origin with the element ag 'sharpness (of the sword)' or 'terror'”. Occasionally there is also the claim that the name is identical to Oswald (from ans 'god' and waltan 'rule').

distribution

The name Uwe quickly became popular in Germany from the 1920s. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, it was consistently one of the ten most popular boys' first names of the respective year, as well as from the second half of the 1950s to the early 1960s. Then its spread sank. Since the early 1980s, hardly any children have been named Uwe.

name day

July 4th

Name bearer

First name (selection)

family name

See also

  • UWE-1 , UWE-2 and UWE-3 , Cubesat experimental satellites from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
  • Uwe (ship, 1914) , barge, sunk on the Elbe in 1975 after a collision
  • alternatively Uve

literature

  • Elke Gerr, The large first name book . "Everything about first names: origin, historical meaning, variants, derivatives, foreign language versions and name days, sorted according to different cultures". Humboldt-Verlag, Hannover 2008. ISBN 978-3-89994-183-8

Web links

Wiktionary: Uwe  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Burkart: New Lexicon of Given Names, Cologne 2002
  2. Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: The large first name dictionary ; Duden-Verlag Mannheim 2003
  3. Wilfried Seibicke: German Historical Name Book ; Berlin 1996-2006
  4. Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges: Dictionary of First Names ; Oxford 1990; The German word “Ecke” is related to the first translation, the second can be found like this (Gothic agan , 'to be afraid') in Förstemann. Ernst Förstemann: Old German name book , first volume; Munich, reprint of the second edition in 1966; Sp. 14
  5. Heimeran's name booklet, Munich 5th edition, 1942
  6. Statistics on "Popular first names"