Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Gerta

From Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de - All rights reserved.

Nameguide note desktop.png

Nameguide note mobile.png

Rate this name:

5.00
(2 votes)



Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

Advertisement:


Origin and Meaning

1) Female form of Gert (see also -a) [1]

2) Short form of Gertrud [2] [3]

Related Names

Gerta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gerte ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Gertha ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Norwegian Swedish
Gerthe ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Swedish
Gjerta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian

See also Geertje, Gertie, Hjerta, Kêrta

Grammar

Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gerta
Genitive: Gertan
Partitive: Gertaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gerta
Genitive: Gertas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gerta
Genitive: Gertas

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 20 people were named Gerta (percentage of first or only given name: 75 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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[5]
15 20 15 20 0 0
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
 33
n.a.
 33 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
1
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
8
n.a.
 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gerta.


References

  1. ↑ Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
Retrieved from "https://www.nordicnames.de/w/index.php?title=Gerta&oldid=439509"