Entry № 6815 · Danish origin

Mette Mette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MET-eh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Danish
Meaning
"Pearl (Mette Frederiksen, Danish PM; Mette-Marit Crown Princess)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Danish)

A name that means "pearl (mette frederiksen, danish pm; mette-marit crown princess)".

Mette is the Danish and Norwegian short form of Margrethe — from the Greek margarites (pearl). Mette Marie Lekfeldt — Danish painter.

Pearl (Mette Frederiksen, Danish PM; Mette-Marit Crown Princess) — a Danish name.

The name in its native script.

Mette
Transliteration
Mette
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛ.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mette stands.

Mette 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.

Mettes before her.

Real people
Mette Frederiksen
Danish Prime Minister.
born 1977
Crown Princess Mette-Marit
Crown Princess of Norway.
born 1973
In fiction
Mette
Various Scandinavian literature.

Names connected to Mette.

The number behind Mette.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mette reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.