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Gretel

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

German dialectal pet form (South Germany) of Greta (see also -el) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Gretel ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Grethel ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gretl ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gretel
Genitive: Gretels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gretel
Genitive: Gretelin
Partitive: Greteliä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gretel
Genitive: Gretels
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gretel
Genitive: Gretels

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage


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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&
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
 973
n.a.
 973 0 0
Sweden Sweden[5]
146 249 146 249 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
14
n.a.
 14
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
7
n.a.
 7
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 Gretel.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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