Entry № 6472 · Danish origin

Margrethe Margrethe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mahr-GREH-teh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Danish
Meaning
"Pearl (Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 52-year reign)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Danish)

A name that means "pearl (queen margrethe ii of denmark, 52-year reign)".

Margrethe is the Danish form of Margaret — from the Greek margarites (pearl).

Subject of countless Scandinavian royal histories.

Pearl (Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 52-year reign) — a Danish name.

The name in its native script.

Margrethe
Transliteration
Margrethe
Pronunciation
/ mɑːˈɡʁeː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Margrethe stands.

Margrethe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Margrethes before her.

Real people
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Danish monarch 1972-2024.
born 1940
Queen Margrethe I
Medieval Scandinavian queen.
1353 – 1412
In fiction
Margrethe
The Snow Queen stage productions.

Names connected to Margrethe.

The number behind Margrethe.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Margrethe reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.