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Meaning & Origins
Short form of Margareta, a Latinate form of Margaret. As an independent given name it became fairly popular in the English-speaking world as a result of the fame of the Swedish-born film actress Greta Garbo (1905–92, born Greta Louisa Gustafsson).
| 1,317th in the U.S. for 2011 |
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a farmer or a nickname for a small person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kerne ‘kernel’, ‘seed’, ‘pip’, German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’.
| 8,341st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Gretta, Grete, Grethe, Gretha, Gret, Gretty, Grett, Greti, Gretia, Grette
Kern, Kerns, Kernan, Kerney, Kernodle, Kernen, Karner, Kernes, Kernaghan, Kurner
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