Retha
Retha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 431st, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1924252 births
- Best rank
- #431in 1901
- Since 1884
- 10,597people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,597 girls have been named Retha in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 252 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 252 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Retha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 30 | |
| 1890s | 178 | |
| 1900s | 446 | |
| 1910s | 1,372 | |
| 1920s | 2,078 | |
| 1930s | 1,868 | |
| 1940s | 1,702 | |
| 1950s | 1,595 | |
| 1960s | 872 | |
| 1970s | 257 | |
| 1980s | 143 | |
| 1990s | 46 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Retha was the 440th most given girl’s name 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 Retha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delmapeak 1926
- Rebapeak 1925
- Florettapeak 1930
- Reathapeak 1927
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Retapeak 1946
- Freidapeak 1947
- Cletapeak 1935
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.