Metté

surname · Latin script

Metté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Contraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”).

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 155(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 588
  • FIFinland1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

37,932 people

Sources
201 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mette in DK Denmark, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Contraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”).

Sources 4

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Metté counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Metté is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark—37,9321 in 15538KMette5
NO Norway#8779,3041 in 58832KMette59
FI Finland—2,5411 in 2.2K2.7K—12
NL Netherlands—2,2201 in 7.8K2.2KMette32
SE Sweden—1,1321 in 9K1.1KMette25
TN Tunisia#603———Mette1

37,932 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Metté is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In lou, to put

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Metté under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Metté mean, and where does it come from?
Contraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Metté have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Metté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mette.
Where is Metté most common?
Metté is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
How common is the name Metté?
In Denmark, the national register counted 37,932 people named Metté, about 1 in 155 residents.
How common is Metté compared with other names?
In Tunisia, Metté is the 603rd most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Metté” — the 603rd most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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