Margaretha

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Margareta

Related Names

See Margareta

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Margaretha
Genitive:	Margarethas

- Finnish
Nominative:	Margaretha
Genitive:	Margarethan
Partitive:	Margarethaa

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Margaretha
Genitive:	Margarethas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Margaretha
Genitive:	Margarethas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 11th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • -1980

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark: Sønderjylland
• Sweden: Gotland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Margaretha Knutsdotter Krook Hammar (1925-2001), Swedish 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&
Sweden		2999	28541	2999	28537	0	4
Finland		n.a.	3470	n.a.	3470	0	0
Denmark		58	n.a.	58	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		0	3	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		80	n.a.	80	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

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