Åke

From Swedish Åke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːk(ː)e/,

Åke

1. The letter Å in the Finnish spelling alphabet.

From Old Norse Áki, diminutive of Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛉ (*anuʀ, “ancestor”) (as in the first part of the name Olaf). By folk etymology sometimes associated with Swedish åka (“ride”), as in Åke-Tor, an epithet of the thunder god Thor. Formerly an eastern Danish name (in what is now southern Sweden) restricted to the gentry. Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Aage, Åge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːˌkɛ/

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Åke

1. The letter "Å" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

• alpha, alpha (international; spelling of the digraph "aa")
• alpha with Oscar (international)
• alpha with ring (international)

Åke c (genitive Åkes)

1. a male given name popular in the twentieth century
   • 1979, Kerstin Ekman, Änglahuset, Bonniers, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

     Han hette Åke Ekengren. Det var ett stiligt namn och han var mycket snygg.

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• (surnames) Åkesson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 88 835 males with the given name Åke living in Sweden on 31 December 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.