The first name Grete
A girl’s name.
1 syllable Female
Popularity in the United States
Babies named Grete at birth, 1880–2025
In 2002, 5 girls born in the United States were named Grete, the 16,344th most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1981, when 7 were.
61
babies named Grete since 1880
#16,344
rank in 2002
1981
peak year
US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.
Famous people named Grete
21 on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Grete MostnyAustrian anthropologist and archaeologist (1914-1991)
- Grete SternGerman-Argentine photographer (1904-1999)
- Grete BergerGerman Jewish actress murdered in the Holocaust (1883-1944)
- Grete HeckscherDanish fencer (1901–1987)
- Grete TreierEstonian sport cyclist (born 1977)
- Grete WiesenthalAustrian ballerina (1885–1970)
- Ann Grete NørgaardDanish handball player, born 1983
- Grete GaimEstonian biathlete (born 1993)
- Grete MosheimGerman actress (1905-1986)
- Grete ReinwaldActress (1902-1983)
- Grete EliassenAmerican-Norwegian freestyle skier (born 1986)
- Grete PaiaEstonian singer (born 1995)
Questions
- When was Grete most popular?
- 1981 in the United States, when 7 babies were named Grete, its highest rank at 8,418th.