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Margreta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Margareta (see also -e) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Margretha ♀
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See also Greta, Magreta, Margret

For male forms see Margido

Combinations

For combinations see MARG (name element)

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Margretuson Faroe Islands

Female

Margretudóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Margreta
Genitive: Margretas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Margreta
Accusative: Margretu
Dative: Margretu
Genitive: Margretu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Margreta
Genitive: Margretan
Partitive: Margretaa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Margreta
Genitive: Margretas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Margreta
Genitive: Margretas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

13 July

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

20 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Denmark: appears in the baptism register of Grimstrup sogn 1661-1675 [9]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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&
Sweden Sweden[11]
18 303 18 303 0 0
Denmark Denmark[12]
9
n.a.
 9
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 10
n.a.
 10 0 0
Iceland Iceland[14]
1 1
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
79
n.a.
 79
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.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Margreta (f) Sources: [17]

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Margreta (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Margreta (f)


References

  1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Axel Tórgarð: Dagar og nøvn í álmanakkanum (2008)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  8. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  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. ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.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/
  17. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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