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Usage
Old Norse
Old Danish
Old Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Low German pet form of Mechthilde (see Mechthild) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [3] [8] [9]
2) Danish pet form of Merete [2] [3] [5] [6] [3] [8] [9] [10]
Related Names
See also Meta, Metea
Combinations
For combinations see METTE (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Mette
|
Genitive: |
Mettes
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Mette
|
Genitive: |
Meten
|
Partitive: |
Metteä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Mette
|
Genitive: |
Mettes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Mette
|
Genitive: |
Mettes
|
Name Days
Denmark
|
3 October
|
Finland
|
14 March
|
Norway
|
14 March
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
14 March
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[11] |
|
38524 |
n.a. |
38524 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Sweden[12] |
|
794 |
1082 |
791 |
1078 |
3 |
4 |
Finland[13] |
|
n.a. |
2141 |
n.a. |
2141 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[14] |
|
128 |
537 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
|
5 |
7 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
9548 |
n.a. |
9548 |
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
Sources: [12][11][16][13]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [17]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables