Margret

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) English short form of Margaret

2) Modern form of Margrét ^{[1] [2]}

3) Short form of Margreta ^{[3] [4]}

Related Names

Margret	♀

Name Day

Faroe Islands

20 July

Further Information

Pronunciation

Swedish: earlier: MAHR-greht, modern: mahr-GREHT

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Margret
Accusative:	Margreti/Margretu
Dative:	Margreti/Margretu
Genitive:	Margretar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Margret
Accusative:	Margret
Dative:	Margret
Genitive:	Margretar

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		613	2713	0	0
Denmark[6]		84	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		81	142	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	73	n.a	2
#: 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 Margret.

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi