Gitte
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gitte är ursprungligen en dansk och norsk smekform till Birgitte (→ Birgitta)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡ̊id̥ə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gitte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 262(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 9.7K
- SESweden1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 262 (inferred from the name graph)
22,382 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gitte är ursprungligen en dansk och norsk smekform till Birgitte (→ Birgitta).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gitte counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 22,382 | 1 in 262 | 22K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 587 | 1 in 17K | 587 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 562 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.9K | Gitte | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 487 | 1 in 35K | 487 | Gitte | 9 |
| US United States | 146 | 1 in 2.3M | 146 | Gitte | 16 |
| IS Iceland | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
22,382 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gitte is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1 German and Danish: short form of Brigitte (see BRIDGET ) and Birgitte (see BIRGIT ). 2 Jewish: of Yiddish origin, originally a nickname meaning ‘good’ (modern German gut ). Pet form (of 2): Jewish: Gittel . Top
as a word
In English, A diminutive of the female given name Birgitte, from Danish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of gitt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, past indicative of gitta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gitte Henningb. 1946DKDanish singer and film actress
- Gitte Speeb. 1950NLDutch children's books illustrator (born 1950)
- Gitte Moos Knudsenb. 1959DKDanish neurologist
- Gitte Løkkegaardb. 1963Danish writer
- Gitte Lillelund Bechb. 1969DKDanish politician
- Gitte Madsenb. 1969DKDanish handball player
- Gitte Sunesenb. 1971DKDanish handball player
- Gitte Kroghb. 1977DKDanish association football player
- Gitte Pedersenb. 1979Danish footballer
- Gitte Wittb. 1983NONorwegian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gitte?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡ̊id̥ə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Gitte mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gitte är ursprungligen en dansk och norsk smekform till Birgitte (→ Birgitta).
- Is Gitte a male or female name?
- Gitte is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Gitte?
- In the etymology graph, Brigitte, Bridget and Birgit are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Brigitta.
- In which country does Gitte have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Gitte, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gitte most common?
- Gitte is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 262 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gitte?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 22,382 people named Gitte, about 1 in 262 residents.
What do you want to know about Gitte?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gitteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gitte”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.