Gitte

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Gitta

Related Names

See Gitta

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Gitte
Genitive:	Gittes

- Finnish
Nominative:	Gitte
Genitive:	Giten / Gitten
Partitive:	Gitteä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Gitte
Genitive:	Gittes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Gitte
Genitive:	Gittes

Name Day

Norway

30 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 20th century
• Sweden: 1925 (Ängelholm, Skåne)
• Greenland: 1961

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1960- (page 92)
  • 1960-1969 (page 245)
• Denmark:
  • 1940-1969
  • 1960-1979
• Norway:
  • late 20th century
  • 1965-1975

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Telemark
• Denmark:
  • Sjælland
  • Østjylland
  • Fyn
  • Jylland
• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Västsverige

Namesakes

• Denmark: Gitte Hænning (born 29 June 1946), Danish singer and actress

Trivia

• Sweden:
  • In January 1973, 248 people were named Gitte (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %)
  • Gitte is an IKEA product name (cushion cover/fabric)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Denmark		22911	n.a.	22911	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		444	580	444	580	0	0
Greenland		27	155	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	110	n.a.	110	0	0
Iceland		3	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		576	n.a.	576	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gitte.