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Female Name
Usage
Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Margreta [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Margreta
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Margrete
|
Genitive: |
Margretes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Margrete
|
Genitive: |
Margreten
|
Partitive: |
Margretea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Margrete
|
Genitive: |
Margretes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Margrete
|
Genitive: |
Margretes
|
Name Day
Norway
|
25 October
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Margrete I. Valdemarsdatter (15 March 1353 – 28 October 1412), queen consort of Norway (1363–1380) and Sweden (1363–1364) and later ruler in her own right of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[6] |
|
35 |
286 |
35 |
286 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[7] |
|
155 |
n.a. |
155 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
14 |
n.a. |
14 |
0 |
0 |
Norway[9] |
|
1237 |
n.a. |
1237 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Greenland[10] |
|
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
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
Sources: [6][7][9][8]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/