Auke, pron. �aukə is a quite common West Frisian masculine

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. It seems to have been a

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form originally (''-ke'' is one of the most common diminutive suffices in West Frisian), which developed from the historic form Auwe or Auwen. According to onomatologist Rienk de Haan, Auwe was a very reduced form of certain Germanic names, possibly starting with '' Alf-'' (meaning "elf", "supernatural" or "nature spirit"). In West Frisian, masculine given names can usually be adapted to equivalent feminine given names. In the case of Auke, this is accomplished by dropping the

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final

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and adding a

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in its place (in this case ''-je''), resulting in Aukje. This is a very common feminine given name in

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.Rienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 35. __NOTOC__

People named Auke

Notable people with the name Auke include: * Auke Adema (1907–1976), a Dutch skater and winner of the Elfstedentocht *

Auke Bloembergen Auke Reitze Bloembergen (28 August 1927 – 1 November 2016) was a Dutch jurist and legal scholar. He was a professor of civil law at Leiden University from 1965 to 1979. Bloembergen was a justice at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands from 1979 t ...

(born 1927), a Dutch jurist and legal scholar *

Auke Hulst Auke Anthony Hulst (born May 20, 1975), is a Dutch novelist, journalist and musician. Biography Hulst was raised in the hamlet of Denemarken (meaning: Denmark), in the north of the Netherlands. After a disorganized upbringing he studied audiovis ...

(born 1975), a Dutch writer and musician *

Auke Stellingwerf Auke Andriesz Stellingwerf (1635 – 13 June 1665) was a Dutch admiral who served the Admiralty of Friesland and died while commanding a squadron in the battle of Lowestoft The Battle of Lowestoft took place on during the Second Anglo-Dutch ...

(1635–1665), a Dutch (Frisian) admiral *

Auke Tellegen Auke Tellegen (born 1930) is a psychologist who served as a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota from 1968 to 1999. He worked on assessment, developing the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire and contributed to the Minneso ...

, an American psychologist *

Auke Zijlstra Auke Zijlstra (born 1 November 1964) is a Dutch politician. He served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Party for Freedom from 13 September 2011 to 1 July 2014 and once more from 7 September 2015 until 2 July 2019. Early life ...

(born 1964), a Dutch politician

People named Aukje

Notable people with the name Aukje include: *

Aukje de Vries Aukje de Vries (born 21 October 1964) is a Dutch politician. As of 10 January 2022, De Vries is State of Secretary for Finance in the fourth Rutte cabinet. As a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid ...

(born 1964), a Dutch (Frisian) politician

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{{given name Frisian masculine given names

People named Auke

People named Aukje

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