Gretar
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gretar is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script.
- ISIceland1 in 1K◐
- NONorway1 in 538K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈369 ◐
- Sources
- 26 ●
- 1 in 1.0K ◐
across 4 countries
134 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #226 | ≈349△ | 102 rec. | 1 in 1K | 19 | Gretar | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈10 | 8 rec. | 1 in 538K | 30 | Gretar | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | ≈9 | 14 rec. | 1 in 652K | 4 | Gretar | 13 |
| US United States | — | ≈1 | 9 rec. | 1 in 431M | — | Gretar | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Roughly 349 people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic1K84%
- English948%
- Danish313%
- Norwegian Bokmål303%
- Russian71%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 1,000 | 84% |
| English | 94 | 8% |
| Danish | 31 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 30 | 3% |
| Russian | 7 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Gretar Tryggvasonb. 1956ISAmerican fluid dynamicist
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #15,606 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 19 | #2,392 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #11,645 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #67,344 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-09-03 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gretar?
- We estimate roughly 369 people bear Gretar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gretar have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 349 people bear Gretar in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gretar.
- Where is Gretar most common?
- Gretar is densest in Iceland, where we estimate about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carry it.
- How common is Gretar compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Gretar is the 226th most common given name of 4,736 given names recorded there.
- Is Gretar a male or female name?
- Gretar is a male 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://nelma-api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gretarThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Gretar” — the 226th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.