Gretchen

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

German pet form of Greta (see also -chen) [1] [2]

Related Names

Gretchen
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

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gretchen
Genitive: Gretchens
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Gretchen
Genitive: Gretchenin
Partitive: Gretcheniä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gretchen
Genitive: Gretchens
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gretchen
Genitive: Gretchens

Further Information

Period of Usage


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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[3]
48 137 48 137 0 0
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
37
n.a.
37 0 0
Denmark Denmark[5]
17
n.a.
17
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
24
n.a.
24
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
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 Gretchen.


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/