Grethe

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Grethe: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Grethe: Recorded since 1945, it reached #13 in 1957, and it was last ranked in 2012.

1registrar recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#13highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for
16names it appears alongside

What stands out in Grethe's record

Held a top-100 place for 29 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 60 years. Longest shared records

Norway · Girls

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–2012

View as table

Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#21
1946	#24
1947	#22
1948	#22
1949	#25
1950	#24
1951	#29
1952	#32
1953	#32
1954	#30
1955	#28
1956	#15
1957	#13
1958	#22
1959	#30
1960	#33
1961	#36
1962	#34
1963	#40
1964	#47
1965	#32
1966	#45
1967	#50
1968	#44
1969	#57
1970	#60
1971	#69
1972	#72
1973	#84
1974	#102
1975	#102
1976	#105
1977	#127
1978	#175
1979	#137
1980	#158
1981	#193
1982	#221
1983	#251
1984	#231
1985	#193
1986	#290
1987	#395
1988	#518
1989	#304
1990	#335
1991	#337
1992	#472
1993	#421
1994	#301
1995	#448
1996	#375
1997	#503
1998	#466
1999	#509
2000	#394
2001	#492
2003	#594
2004	#573
2012	#576

VerifiedSource: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name.Confidence: high.

See all Norway names · Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name

What the data shows

FallingNorway · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 60 of the 68 years from 1945 to 2012.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2012 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #21 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2012
Highest recorded position: #13 among girls in Norway, in 1957 (recorded 1945–2012).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2012
Most recently recorded at #576 among girls in Norway, in 2012.
Norway · Girls

Grethe by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Grethe in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	1,652	5 of 10	330
1950s	2,966	10 of 10	297
1960s	2,123	10 of 10	212
1970s	769	10 of 10	77
1980s	205	10 of 10	21
1990s	95	10 of 10	10
2000s	23	4 of 10	6
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 330 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1955 and 1956, when recorded births rose by 88, from 276 to 364.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Grethe appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #13 in Norway in 1957.

Grethe's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2012	Norway	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#573	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#594	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#492	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#394	9	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#466	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#503	6	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#375	10	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#448	8	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#301	14	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#421	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#472	8	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#337	13	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#335	14	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#304	16	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#518	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#395	11	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#290	16	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#193	27	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#231	21	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#251	19	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#221	23	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#193	28	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#158	37	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#137	43	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#175	31	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#127	48	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#105	61	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#102	69	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#102	68	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#84	90	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#72	109	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#69	116	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#60	134	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#57	157	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#44	198	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#50	169	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#45	203	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#32	258	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#47	199	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#40	220	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#34	243	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#36	226	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#33	250	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#30	282	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#22	311	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#13	364	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#15	364	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#28	276	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#30	258	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#32	269	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#32	270	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#29	267	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#24	305	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#25	309	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#22	319	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#22	350	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#24	333	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#21	341	High	Verified

Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1945 and 2012, ranked in 60 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #13, first reached in 1957.

It held a top-100 place in 29 years, 29 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 364 births, registered in Norway in 1956.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Grete · #18, 64y
Gretha · #122, 24y
Gretta · #331, 19y
Grey · #1113, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ludvig · #13, 60y
Unni · #13, 64y
Ulrik · #14, 56y
Gunn · #15, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Jenny · #13, 81y
Leon · #13, 74y
Ludvig · #13, 60y
Unni · #13, 64y

Comparisons involving Grethe

Existing comparison pages where Grethe and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Grethe in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Ingrid vs Grethe
In 1945 they stood at #27 and #21 in Norway · Girls, 6 places apart; by 2012 they were #4 and #576.
Ingrid · Grethe · 60 shared years, 1945–2012 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Astrid vs Grethe
In 1945 they stood at #12 and #21 in Norway · Girls, 9 places apart; by 2012 they were #52 and #576.
Astrid · Grethe · 60 shared years, 1945–2012 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Solveig vs Grethe
In 1945 they stood at #14 and #21 in Norway · Girls, 7 places apart; by 2012 they were #65 and #576.
Solveig · Grethe · 60 shared years, 1945–2012 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2012 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Grethe and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Grethe vs Lena
In Norway · Girls, Lena moved into the top 50 at #20 in 1969 as Grethe fell out of it to #57, having been #44 the year before.
Grethe · Lena · 60 shared years, 1945–2012 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1969 Norway ranking
Lene vs Grethe
In Norway · Girls, Lene moved into the top 50 at #35 in 1969 as Grethe fell out of it to #57, having been #44 the year before.
Lene · Grethe · 59 shared years, 1946–2012 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1969 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Grethe measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Grethe at its highest position.

Grethe vs Ellen
In 1945 they stood at #21 and #29 in Norway · Girls, 8 places apart; by 2012 they were #576 and #208.
Grethe · Ellen · 60 shared years, 1945–2012 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Grethe vs Ragnhild
In 1945 they stood at #21 and #18 in Norway · Girls, 3 places apart; by 2012 they were #576 and #282.
Grethe · Ragnhild · 60 shared years, 1945–2012 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Grethe vs Grete
Grethe and Grete changed places 21 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2003, ending at #594 and #593.
Grethe · Grete · 56 shared years, 1945–2003 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2003 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Grethe was ranked #13 in Norway · Girls in 1957. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Grethe and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Grethe without appearing here.

Grethe moved ahead of

Reidun Compare
In 2011 they stood at #573 and #545 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #576 and #600.
Randi Compare
In 2011 they stood at #573 and #286 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #576 and #598.

Moved ahead of Grethe

Mila Compare
In 2011 they stood at #573 and #587 in Norway · Girls; by 2012 that had become #576 and #260.
Jessica Compare
In 1996 they stood at #375 and #378 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #503 and #232.
Bente Compare
In 1996 they stood at #375 and #397 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #503 and #260.
Jasmine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #394 and #552 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #594 and #359.

Moved the opposite way to Grethe

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 while Ada went from #229 to #51.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 while Alma went from #293 to #38.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 while Anna went from #38 to #8.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 while Cecilie went from #359 to #215.

Moved the same way as Grethe

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 and Anita from #162 to #330.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 and Ann from #82 to #355.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 and Anne from #1 to #97.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Girls, Grethe went from #21 to #576 and Annie from #180 to #301.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #13 in Norway in 1957. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Grethe

Grethe at a glance

What stands out in Grethe's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Grethe by decade in Norway · Girls

Grethe appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Grethe

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Grethe

Grethe and the names beside it

Grethe moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Grethe

Moved the opposite way to Grethe

Moved the same way as Grethe

Grethe at a glance

What stands out in Grethe's record

Grethe by decade in Norway · Girls

Grethe appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Grethe

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Grethe

Grethe and the names beside it

Grethe moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Grethe

Moved the opposite way to Grethe

Moved the same way as Grethe