Greta
Greta is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Greta is a short form of Margareta . The name Greta means "The Pearl".
distribution
Although the name form Greta has long been known, it was rare in Germany until the late 1980s. Since then, the popularity of the name Greta has risen sharply in Germany.
variants
Well-known namesake
- Greta Andersen (* 1927), Danish swimmer
- Gréta Arn (* 1979), Hungarian, formerly German tennis player
- Greta Galisch de Palma (* 1976), German actress and voice actress
- Greta Garbo (1905–1990), Swedish film actress
- Greta Gerwig (* 1983), American actress
- Greta Gysin (* 1983), Swiss politician
- Greta Johansson (1895–1978), Swedish water diver
- Greta Keller (1903–1977), international chanson singer of Austrian origin
- Greta Klingsberg (* 1929), Israeli singer and translator
- Greta Koçi (* 1991), Albanian pop singer
- Greta Kuckhoff (1902–1981), German resistance fighter and President of the State Bank of the GDR
- Greta Saur (1909–2000), German painter who lived and worked in Paris
- Greta Scacchi (* 1960), Italian film actress
- Greta Schiller (* 1954), American film director
- Greta Schröder (1892–1980), German silent film and theater actress
- Greta Short (* 1999), German actress
- Greta Small (* 1995), Australian ski racer
- Greta Thunberg (* 2003), Swedish climate protection activist
- Greta Van Susteren (* 1954), American television presenter and journalist
- Greta Wassberg (1904–1996), Swedish singer
- Greta Wehner (1924–2017), German Social Democrat, wife of Herbert Wehner