Gretel
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Gretel is a German shortening of the given name Margarete, meaning "pearl".
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- female given name
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- native label
- Gretel
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- G634
- Cologne phonetics
- 4725
- Caverphone
- KRT111
- language of work or name
- German
- name day
- July 20
- Commons category
- Gretel (given name)
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Gretel is a German shortening of the given name Margarete, meaning "pearl".
Notable people with this given name include: Gretel, a fictional character in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel Gretel Beer (1921–2010), Austrian-born English author of cooking books and travel reports and newspaper cookery writer Gretel Bergmann (1914–2017), German Jewish high jumper who was prevented from competing in the 1936 Berlin Olympics Gretel Ehrlich (born 1946), American travel writer, poet, and essayist Gretel Grant-Gomez, a fictional character from the Disney Channel animated series Hamster & Gretel Gretel Killeen (born 1963), Australian presenter Gretel Oberhollenzer-Rogger (born 1958), Italian ski mountaineer Gretel Scarlett (born 1987), Australian actress Gretel Tippett (born 1993), Australian netball player and former WNBL basketball player
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gretel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.