Greta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

German short form of Margreta (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

Greeta
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Greetta
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Gret
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Grét
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Greta
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Gréta
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Grete
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Greth
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Gretha
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Grethe
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Gretta
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Danish Swedish
Grette
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Kreeta
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Kreetta
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See also Gretchen, Greteke, Gretel, Krîta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gretuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Gretudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see GRET (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Greta
Genitive: Gretas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Greta
Accusative: Gretu
Dative: Gretu
Genitive: Gretu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Greta
Genitive: Gretan
Partitive: Gretaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Greta
Accusative: Gretu
Dative: Gretu
Genitive: Gretu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Greta
Genitive: Gretas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Greta
Genitive: Gretas

Name Days

Norway Norway

13 March

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 July

Sweden Sweden

20 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes


Gnbox image.png The German pronunciation of Greta can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de.

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&
Sweden Sweden[12]
4577 12027 4577 12027 0 0
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
4248
n.a.
4248 0 0
Denmark Denmark[15]
430
n.a.
430
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[16]
63 75
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[18]
1756
n.a.
1756
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Greta (f) Sources: [12][15][18][14]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Greta (f) Sources: [19]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Greta (f)

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Greta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Greta (f)


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  9. Märit Frändén: Svenska kyrkan och det samiska namnskicket (2016)
  10. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  14. 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  16. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  19. details see Name Statistic tables