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Margret

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Margrét [1] [2] [3]

2) Short form of Margreta and Margrete [4] [5] [6] [3] [7]

3) English short form of Margaret [8]

Related Names

Margret ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Margreth ♀
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

See also Magret

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Margretarson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Margretardóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Margret
Genitive: Margrets
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Margret
Accusative: Margret
Dative: Margret
Genitive: Margretar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Margret
Genitive: Margretin
Partitive: Margretia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Margret
Accusative: Margreti/Margretu
Dative: Margreti/Margretu
Genitive: Margretar
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Margret
Genitive: Margrets
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Margret
Genitive: Margrets

Name Day

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

20 July

Further Information

Pronunciation

  • Swedish: earlier: MAHR-greht, modern: mahr-GREHT

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Denmark: appears in the baptism register of Grimstrup sogn 1661-1675 [7]

Strongest Period of Usage

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 Sweden[11]
534 2384 534 2384 0 0
Denmark Denmark[12]
73
n.a.
 73
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 89
n.a.
 89 0 0
Iceland Iceland[14]
12 26
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
160
n.a.
 160
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
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 Margret.


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  5. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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