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Female Name
Usage
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant form of Gitta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [3] [6]
Related Names
See Gitta
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Gitte
|
Genitive: |
Gittes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Gitte
|
Genitive: |
Giten / Gitten
|
Partitive: |
Gitteä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Gitte
|
Genitive: |
Gittes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Gitte
|
Genitive: |
Gittes
|
Name Day
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
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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& |
---|
Denmark[11] |
|
22911 |
n.a. |
22911 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[12] |
|
444 |
580 |
444 |
580 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[13] |
|
27 |
155 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
110 |
n.a. |
110 |
0 |
0 |
Iceland[15] |
|
3 |
3 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no