Given name & surname · also German

Lykke

“folk, people”

Lykke is a unisex given name from Middle Low German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Danish.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Lykke goes back to Proto-Germanic *liudiz, meaning “folk, people.”

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Where it comes from

Lykke comes from Middle Low German, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“folk, people”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

People named Lykke

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Similar names

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Germanic

Limmer

“people”

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Lieb

“dear”

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Lindín

“to dare”

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Germanic

Leitz

“tribe, people”

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Germanic

Littunen

Littunen is a surname, possibly from Germanic. It is used in Finnish.

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Germanic

Lesende

“fight”

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Swedish

Leikas

Leikas is a surname, probably from Germanic, ultimately from Old Swedish. It is used in Finnish.

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Germanic

Llull

Llull is a surname, probably from Medieval Latin, ultimately from Germanic. It is used in Catalan.

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Sibling ideas

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