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Merete

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Female Female Name

Usage

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

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Origin and Meaning

Old Danish variant form of Mergrete (see Mergret) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Meerit ♀
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Meret ♀
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Mereta ♀
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Merete ♀
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Mereth ♀
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Meretha ♀
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Merethe ♀
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Meriitta ♀
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Merit ♀
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Merita ♀
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Merith ♀
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Meritta ♀
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Merrit ♀
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Merritt ♀
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 Norwegian Swedish
Märet ♀
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Mæret ♀
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 Norwegian
Märeta ♀
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Mæreta ♀
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 Old Swedish
Mæretta ♀
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Märit ♀
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Märita ♀
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Mærret ♀
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Mærætha ♀
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See also Mette, Märta, Reta

Combinations

For combinations see MERETE (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Merete
Genitive: Meretes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Merete
Genitive: Mereten
Partitive: Mereteä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Merete
Genitive: Meretes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Merete
Genitive: Meretes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Merete Armand (8 June 1955 – 22 January 2017), Norwegian actress

Trivia

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
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]
5683
n.a.
 5683
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
130 369 130 369 0 0
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
 146
n.a.
 146 0 0
Greenland Greenland[11]
6 13
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[12]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
5068
n.a.
 5068
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Merete (f) Sources: [9][8][13][10]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Merete (f)


References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. ↑ IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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