Given name · also Norwegian
Káre
Káre is a feminine given name from Norwegian, ultimately from Swedish. It is used in Northern Sami.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Káre comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Swedish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Káre developed from Kari. Káre developed from Katarina.
Káre’s family of names
Káre developed from the Norwegian form Kari. Káre has a conventional equivalent in the English form Catherine. Káre developed from the Swedish form Katarina.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Káre has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Swedish roots to each of them.
Swedishwhere Káre comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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