Gretha

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Faroese
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Greta (see also -a)

Related Names

See Greta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Grethuson

Female

Grethudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Gretha
Genitive:	Grethas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Gretha
Accusative:	Grethu
Dative:	Grethu
Genitive:	Grethu

- Finnish
Nominative:	Gretha
Genitive:	Grethan
Partitive:	Grethaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Gretha
Genitive:	Grethas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Gretha
Genitive:	Grethas

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: -1950
• Norway: 1935-1950

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Ångermanland (19th century) see map
  • Lappland (19th century) see map

The German pronunciation of Gretha can be found on our sister site www.germannames.de.

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		147	n.a.	147	n.a.	0	n.a.
Sweden		53	130	53	130	0	0
Finland		n.a.	8	n.a.	8	0	0
Greenland		0	4	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		499	n.a.	499	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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Gretha (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.