# Grete (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/grete/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 61 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 61 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 | 5,121 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,825 |
| 1931 | 6 | 4,068 |
| 1974 | 6 | 8,033 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,737 |
| 1981 | 7 | 8,418 |
| 1985 | 6 | 9,719 |
| 1986 | 6 | 9,961 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,918 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,191 |
| 2002 | 5 | 16,344 |

## People named Grete

- Grete Mostny, Austrian anthropologist and archaeologist (1914-1991)
- Grete Stern, German-Argentine photographer (1904-1999)
- Grete Berger, German Jewish actress murdered in the Holocaust (1883-1944)
- Grete Heckscher, Danish fencer (1901–1987)
- Grete Treier, Estonian sport cyclist (born 1977)
- Grete Wiesenthal, Austrian ballerina (1885–1970)
- Ann Grete Nørgaard, Danish handball player
- Grete Gaim, Estonian biathlete (born 1993)
- Grete Mosheim, German actress (1905-1986)
- Grete Reinwald, actress (1902-1983)
- Grete Eliassen, American-Norwegian freestyle skier (born 1986)
- Grete Paia, Estonian singer (born 1995)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.