Margrethe
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret, a royal name in Denmark
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Margrethe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2.8K
- SESweden1 in 12K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,603 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret, a royal name in Denmark
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
How Margrethe is read(measured from records)
Margrethe is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish52%
a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret, a royal name in Denmark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian22%
a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Margrethe in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margrethe 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 2,603 | 1 in 2.1K | 9.7K | Margrethe | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 2,101 | 1 in 2.8K | 2.1K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 868 | 1 in 12K | 868 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 330 | 1 in 52K | 330 | — | — |
| US United States | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 175 | Margrethe | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
2,603 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margrethe Matherb. 1886USAmerican photographer (1886–1952)
- Margrethe Bohrb. 1890DKDanish editor, transcriber
- Princess Margrethe of Denmarkb. 1895DKDanish and Parmese Royal (1895-1992)
- Karen Harupb. 1924DKnot in their usual nameDanish swimmer
- Ingeborg Nilssonb. 1924NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian figure skater, figure skater judge and coach (1924–1995)
- Princess Elisabeth of Denmarkb. 1935DKnot in their usual nameDanish princess (1935-2018)
- Margrethe IIb. 1940DKQueen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
- Vestagerb. 1968DKnot in their usual nameDanish politician
- Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordbergb. 1976NONorwegian orienteering competitor
- Princess Isabella of Denmarkb. 2007DKnot in their usual nameDanish princess, elder daughter of Frederik X of Denmark and Queen Mary
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Margrethe mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret, a royal name in Denmark Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Margrethe?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Margarita and Megan are forms of the same name in other languages; Mette, Grete and Merete are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Margrethe a male or female name?
- Margrethe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Margrethe have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Margrethe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margrethe.
- Where is Margrethe most common?
- Margrethe is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Margrethe?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,603 people named Margrethe in 2025, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Margrethe?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margretheThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Margrethe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.