For this Bernd Uwe there are 217 different names on Yasni.
In the ranking of the most common first names Bernd Uwe is on position 4374.
Male first name (German): Bernd, Old High (two-part name); bero = the bear, brown; harti = hard, strong, firm, resolute; Bernu = the bear (German dialect); old German two-part name, in the Middle Ages spread through the worship of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (11-12 cent.)
Male first name (German, Low German, Frisian): Uwe; Old Norse (became independent short), ag = heavy paddling envy, the top, 'Uwe' is probably a Frisian form of the Scandinavian name 'Ove' older 'Aghi', was 'Aghi' The short form of several old names with the element of 'ag' Ove or Uwe is the Nordic and abraded form of common Germanic name Odalbert which usually consists of two nouns with the meaning that is Odal estate and Bert with the meaning of gloss is composed. Sound shifts was made by the O a U and the B is a W. From Odal was the U of Bert and name part of the we. On Nordic transformation of the long form of the name, for example, in Ove Odalbert or Uwe I add other examples added: From the Latin name Laurentius was allowed to and from the Hebrew Absalom was Axel.
(Sent from: Uwe Looft )
