Etta
Etta is ranked 973rd among girls in 2024 (266 births). Its best rank was 72nd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #973down 38 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2660.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920803 births
- Best rank
- #72in 1880
- Since 1880
- 42,985people given the name
The story in the numbers
42,985 girls have been named Etta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 803 births.
The name has all but left use: 266 births in 2024, against 803 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Etta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,973 | |
| 1890s | 4,670 | |
| 1900s | 4,003 | |
| 1910s | 6,252 | |
| 1920s | 6,961 | |
| 1930s | 4,805 | |
| 1940s | 3,797 | |
| 1950s | 2,480 | |
| 1960s | 1,463 | |
| 1970s | 458 | |
| 1980s | 237 | |
| 1990s | 172 | |
| 2000s | 342 | |
| 2010s | 2,004 | |
| 2020s | 1,368 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Etta was the 230th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Etta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Idapeak 1918
- Lulapeak 1921
- Salliepeak 1916
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Lillapeak 1918
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Dellapeak 1917
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.