Mette

Contraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtə/, [ˈmɛd̥ə]

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• Homophone: mætte

Mette

1. a female given name

• Popular in Denmark from the 1960s to the 1980s.

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 52 922 females with the given name Mette have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

From Danish Mette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetːe/, [ˈme̞t̪ːe̞]
• Rhymes: -etːe
• Syllabification^(key): Met‧te

Mette

1. a female given name

• Mette is the 281^st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,846 female individuals (and as a middle name to 356 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Middle High German mettī, from Old High German mattina, a borrowing of Late Latin mattina from Classical Latin (laudēs) mātūtīnae (“morning (praise)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtə/

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Mette f (genitive Mette, plural Metten)

1. Matins

• Christmette

• “Mette” in Duden online
• “Mette” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mette” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Mette

1. a female given name of Danish origin