Mette is the Danish and Norwegian short form of Margrethe — from the Greek margarites (pearl). Mette Frederiksen (born 1977) — Danish politician; the youngest person and second woman ever to serve as Prime Minister of Denmark (2019-present); leader of the Social Democrats since 2015. Her 2021 enactment of a "zero asylum seekers" goal made Denmark's policy among the strictest in the EU and shaped the broader European center-left's immigration positioning. Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (born 1973) — wife of Crown Prince Haakon since 2001; first commoner with a young son from a previous relationship to marry a European heir apparent in the modern era. Mette Marie Lekfeldt — Danish painter. Mette Vestergaard — Danish CEO of the Mary Foundation founded by Crown Princess Mary.
Featured throughout 2010s-2020s Scandinavian politics.
Mette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mette reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.