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Grethe

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Usage

Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Grete [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Greta

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gretheson Iceland

Female

Grethedóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Grethe
Genitive: Grethes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Grethe
Genitive: Grethen
Partitive: Gretheä
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Grethe
Accusative: Grethe
Dative: Grethe
Genitive: Grethe
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Grethe
Genitive: Grethes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Grethe
Genitive: Grethes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Grethe Kausland (née Nilsen, 3 July 1947 – 16 November 2007), Norwegian singer and actress

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 Denmark[8]
11136
n.a.
 11136
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
65 1192
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[10]
274 537 274 537 0 0
Finland Finland[11]
n.a.
 33
n.a.
 33 0 0
Iceland Iceland[12]
5 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
8815
n.a.
 8815
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.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Grethe (f) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Grethe (f)


References

  1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  7. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  10. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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