Margrete

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Female Female Name

Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Margreta [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Margreta

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Margrete
Genitive: Margretes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Margrete
Genitive: Margreten
Partitive: Margretea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Margrete
Genitive: Margretes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Margrete
Genitive: Margretes

Name Day

Norway 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

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[6]
35 286 35 286 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
155
n.a.
155
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[8]
n.a.
14
n.a.
14 0 0
Norway Norway[9]
1237
n.a.
1237
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland 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

Name statistics for Margrete (f) Sources: [6][7][9][8]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Margrete (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. 8.0 8.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/