Margrethe

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Margrete ^[1]

Related Names

See Margreta

Name Days

Denmark

13 July

Further Information

Namesakes

Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, Hendes Majestæt Dronningen, (Queen of Denmark, born: 16th April, 1940)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		3146	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[3]		2490	2987	0	0
Sweden[4]		147	1124	0	0
Finland[5]		n.a.	28	n.a	4
#: 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^[4][2][3][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

Sources: ^{[4] [2] [3] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
2. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi