Metta
Metta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 445th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192425 births
- Best rank
- #445in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,123people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,123 girls have been named Metta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 25 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 25 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Metta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 125 | |
| 1890s | 161 | |
| 1900s | 100 | |
| 1910s | 160 | |
| 1920s | 170 | |
| 1930s | 115 | |
| 1940s | 68 | |
| 1950s | 50 | |
| 1960s | 37 | |
| 1970s | 19 | |
| 1980s | 23 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 8 | |
| 2010s | 62 | |
| 2020s | 20 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Metta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Metta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Minniepeak 1916
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Lidapeak 1918
- Lillapeak 1918
- Tenniepeak 1918
- Mintapeak 1921
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Maypeak 1919
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.