Gretchen
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Gretchen (, ; literal translation: "Little Grete" or "Little Greta") is a female given name of German origin that is most prevalent in the United States.
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Gretchen (, ; literal translation: "Little Grete" or "Little Greta") is a female given name of German origin that is most prevalent in the United States.
Its popularity increased because a major character in Goethe's Faust (1808) has this name. In German, the Gretchenfrage ("question by Gretchen"), derived from Faust, is an idiom for a direct question that aims at the core of a problem and that should reveal the intentions and mindset of the questioned. The question is usually inconvenient to the questioned since he or she shall confess to something crucial he or she was intentionally or unintentionally vague about before.