Margrethe

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Female Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling of Margrete

Related Names

See Margreta

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Margrethe
Genitive:	Margrethes

- Finnish
Nominative:	Margrethe
Genitive:	Margrethen
Partitive:	Margrethea

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Margrethe
Genitive:	Margrethes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Margrethe
Genitive:	Margrethes

Name Days

Denmark

13 July

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 13th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • 1885-1909
  • 1920-1929
• Denmark:
  • 1900-1919
  • -1950
• Norway:
  • 1930-1945

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Lolland-Falster

Namesakes

• Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, Hendes Majestæt Dronningen, (Queen of Denmark, born: 16th April, 1940)

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&
Denmark		2299	n.a.	2299	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		203	988	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Sweden		117	942	117	942	0	0
Finland		n.a.	33	n.a.	33	0	0
Iceland		4	9	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		2717	n.a.	2717	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.

 

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