Name: Detlev
Gender: Male
Usage: Detlev is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Detlev are in general originating from Germany, Switzerland.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Detlev is: People inheritance.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Detlev is ranked on the 59,115th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 2400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Detlev has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Detlev is a German given name. People with this name include:
- Detlev Blanke (born 1941), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin
- Detlev Bronk (1897–1975), President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland
- Detlev Buchholz, theoretical physicist at Göttingen University
- Detlev Buck (born 1962), German film director and actor
- Otto Detlev Creutzfeldt (born 1927), German physiologist and neurologist
- Detlev Dammeier (born 1968), German football coach and a former player
- Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner (1878–1938), illustrator of the American West
- Detlev Lauscher (1952–2010), German footballer who played as a striker
- Detlev von Liliencron (1844–1909), German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel
- Detlev Mehlis (born 1949), Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin
- Detlev F. Neufert, German author, filmmaker and current president of the German Thai Media Association
- Detlev Peukert (1950–1990), German historian
- Detlev Ploog (1920–2005), German clinical psychiatrist, primate behavior researcher and anthropologist
- Christian Detlev Reventlow (1671–1738), Danish diplomat and military leader
- Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1932–1991), German manager and politician (Social Democratic Party)
Low German: from an old Germanic personal name composed of the elements peud people, race + leib relic, inheritance, descendant. The High German form, Dietleib, is not current as a given name.
Variant: Detlef.
Cognates: E. Frisian: Tjalf. Swedish: Detlof.
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