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Grete
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Usage
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
German short form of Margarete [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Related Names
See Greta
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Grete |
| Genitive: | Gretes |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Grete |
| Genitive: | Greten |
| Partitive: | Greteä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Grete |
| Genitive: | Gretes |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Grete |
| Genitive: | Gretes |
Name Day
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13 March |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
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& | |
| Denmark[7] |
  |
3540 | n.a. |
3540 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Sweden[8] |
 |
274 | 478 | 274 | 478 | 0 | 0 |
| Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
147 | n.a. |
147 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenland[10] |
  |
5 | 12 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Iceland[11] |
  |
3 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
 |
8542 | n.a. |
8542 | 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. |
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Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no