Grethe
About 7 American babies have been named Grethe since 1932, most of them around 1932. It has not appeared in the national data since 1932. About 1 Grethes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 93.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Grethe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7
- Estimated living today
- 1
- Median age today
- 93
- Peak year
- 1932
- Best rank
- 3,568th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1932
Notable Grethes
- Grethe Ingmann (1938–1990)Danish singer
- Grethe Weiser (1903–1970)German actress
- Grethe Kausland (1947–2007)Norwegian actor and singer
- Grethe Rytter Hasle (1920–2013)Norwegian scientist and planktologist
- Grethe Rask (1930–1977)Danish surgeon, one of the earliest non-Africans to die of AIDS
- Grethe Bartram (1924–2017)Danish wartime collaborator
People named Grethe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1932
The most popular girls’ names the year Grethe peaked:
Grethe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Grethe | 7,837 | 15th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Grethe among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Grethe | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Grethe against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.