Gitte

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Gitta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [3] [6]

Related Names

See Gitta

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gitte
Genitive: Gittes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gitte
Genitive: Giten / Gitten
Partitive: Gitteä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gitte
Genitive: Gittes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gitte
Genitive: Gittes

Name Day

Norway Norway

30 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Denmark: Gitte Hænning (born 29 June 1946), Danish singer and actress

Trivia

  • Sweden:
    • In January 1973, 248 people were named Gitte (percentage of first or only given name: 84 %) [9]
    • Gitte is an IKEA product name (cushion cover/fabric) [10]

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&
Denmark Denmark[11]
22911
n.a.
22911
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
444 580 444 580 0 0
Greenland Greenland[13]
27 155
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
110
n.a.
110 0 0
Iceland Iceland[15]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
576
n.a.
576
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 Gitte.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  14. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no