Given name
Margrethe
Margrethe is a feminine given name. It is used in Danish and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Margrethe shares an earlier linguistic root with Margaret. Margaret has been associated with Greek and Hebrew naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margrethe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 0 boys · 27 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1963. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 175 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Margrethe’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Margrethe has a diminutive in MOSSA. Margrethe shares a linguistic root with Margaret. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Margrethe has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Margarita.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Margrethe has relatives in 10 languages.
12 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 32
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Margotequivalent
- Margaretcognate · English
- Maggieequivalent
- MargaritaSpanish
- MargueriteFrench
- Maireadequivalent
- Margretequivalent
- MargareteGerman
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- Margitequivalent
- Marietaequivalent
- MargheritaItalian
- Makkaborrowing · Greenlandic
- Margaridaequivalent
- Margarethaequivalent
- Margitaequivalent
- Margaretaequivalent
- Marjetaequivalent
- Marc'haridequivalent
- 瑪格麗特Chinese
- Makkalittaborrowing · Greenlandic
- Makkakborrowing · Greenlandic
- MarkétaCzech
- Margrjetequivalent
- Margalidaequivalent
- Marjeticaequivalent
- Margeritaequivalent
- Margrétequivalent
- Margrethequivalent
- Małgorzataequivalent
- Margedequivalent
- Marjetkaequivalent
- Marijetaequivalent
People named Margrethe
- Margrethe IIQueen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
- Margrethe VestagerDanish politician (born 1968)
- Princess Margaret of DenmarkDanish and Parmese Royal (1895-1992)
- Margrethe RenstrømNorwegian long and triple jumperborn 1985
- Margrethe MuntheNorwegian writer (1860–1931)
- Margrethe MatherAmerican photographer (1886–1952)
- Margrethe VullumNorwegian journalist (1846-1918)
- Margrethe BerganeNorwegian cross-country skierborn 2001
- Margrethe PapeMistress of Frederick III1618–1686
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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