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Margareta
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Usage
Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
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Origin and Meaning
Nordic and German form of Margarita [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Related Names
| Margareeta | ♀ |   |
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| Margareetta | ♀ | |
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| Margareta | ♀ |   |
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| Margarete | ♀ |  |
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| Margaretha | ♀ | |
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| Margarethe | ♀ | |
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See also: Madicken, Magareta, Magga, Magte, Maret, Marga, Margaret, Margereta, Margreta, Marta, Merete, Mergret, Meta, Mossa, Reta
Combinations
For combinations see MARG (name element)
Grammar
| - Danish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Margareta |
| Genitive: | Margaretas |
| - Finnish |
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| Nominative: | Margareta |
| Genitive: | Margaretan |
| Partitive: | Margaretaa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Margareta |
| Genitive: | Margaretas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Margareta |
| Genitive: | Margaretas |
Name Days
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20 July |
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20 July |
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20 July |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
- Denmark:
- Top 1 in the Middle Ages [9]
- -1910 [3]
- -1980 [7]
- Sweden:
- 1940-1969 [6]
- Norway:
- 1940-1950 [8]
Predominant Regional Usage
- Denmark:
- Sweden:
- Härjedalen (19th century) see map [10]
- Jämtland (19th century) see map [10]
- Gotland (19th century) see map [10]
- Gästrikland (19th century) see map [10]
- Ångermanland (19th century) see map [10]
- Norrbotten (19th century) see map [10]
Namesakes
- Saint Margareta (ca 290 - 304), patron of childbirth, and escape from devils; she is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
Trivia
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& | |
| Sweden[12] |
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21832 | 219094 | 21832 | 219084 | 0 | 10 |
| Finland[13] |
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n.a. |
21923 | n.a. |
21923 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[14] |
|
71 | n.a. |
71 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
 Iceland[15] |
  |
2 | 10 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[16] |
|
115 | n.a. |
115 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[17] |
  |
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. |
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Top List Ranking
Sources: [18]
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Margareta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables