Wiebke

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Wiebke , also: Wibke , Wibeke , is a female given name . Further variants are Wibbke, Wubbke, Wübbke, Wübbecke, Wybke, Vibbeke, Vipcke; Danish Vibeke , Swedish Viveka . In the forms of Wiebke and Wiepke, it also occasionally appears as a surname .

origin

Wiebke is a diminutive ( diminutive ) of not more common Low German and Frisian female first name Wiebe, Wieba . This is a short form of names that are formed with Wig- (Old High German, Old Low German wīg 'Kampf, Krieg'), for example from Wigberta and Wigburg .

Namesake

The namesake are Saint Wigbert (August 13, Anglo-Saxon, followed the call of Winfried Bonifatius and was a missionary in Hesse and Thuringia. First abbot of the Fritzlar Monastery in Hesse, founded in 732. † August 13, 780) and Saint Wiborada (2. May, hermit in a cell in St. Gallen and counselor for everyone who was looking for help. Died under ax blows by Hungarian warriors. † May 2, 926).

Name days: August 13th, May 2nd

Well-known namesake

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Surname

Others

  • Orkan Wiebke (1990) claimed dozens of lives and caused billions in property damage

Individual evidence

  1. Duden. Lexicon of first names. Origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names. 2., rework. and exp. Ed. By Günther Drosdowski. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 1974 (Duden-Taschenbücher 4), p. 215, or 3., revised. and exp. Ed. By Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, ibid. 1998, p. 257.