Lieke
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Lieke () is a Dutch feminine given name. It is a diminutive of a short form of the name Angelie, Angelika, Elisabeth, Lia, or Nicolaas. The name was introduced in the 1940s, with popularity peaks in 1991 and 2008. It is the name of over 16,000 women in the Netherlands and Belgium, and can also be found in northern Germany.
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- Name.name
- Lieke
- Name.gender
- Feminine
- Name.meaning
- Little Lie
- Name.language
- Dutch
- Name.languageorigin
- Dutch
- Name.variant forms
- Like
- Name.derived
- Angelie, Angelika, Elisabeth, Lia, Nicolaas
- Name.derivation
- Lie +
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- native label
- Lieke
- Soundex
- L200
- Cologne phonetics
- 54
- Caverphone
- LK1111
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- Lieke (given name)
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Lieke () is a Dutch feminine given name. It is a diminutive of a short form of the name Angelie, Angelika, Elisabeth, Lia, or Nicolaas. The name was introduced in the 1940s, with popularity peaks in 1991 and 2008. It is the name of over 16,000 women in the Netherlands and Belgium, and can also be found in northern Germany.
==Etymology== Lieke means , where the suffix indicates it is a diminutive and Lie is a shortened form of the feminine names Angelie, Angelika, or Lia. As a spelling variation of the name Like, Lie can also be a diminutive short form of the feminine name Elisabeth or the masculine name Nicolaas.
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