Retta
Retta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 324th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192260 births
- Best rank
- #324in 1880
- Since 1880
- 3,391people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,391 girls have been named Retta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 60 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 60 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1950s alone account for 14%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Retta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 249 | |
| 1890s | 294 | |
| 1900s | 276 | |
| 1910s | 334 | |
| 1920s | 443 | |
| 1930s | 437 | |
| 1940s | 435 | |
| 1950s | 482 | |
| 1960s | 225 | |
| 1970s | 101 | |
| 1980s | 42 | |
| 1990s | 16 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 28 | |
| 2020s | 24 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Retta was the 967th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Retta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dellapeak 1917
- Vinniepeak 1916
- Dorapeak 1921
- Salliepeak 1916
- Tildapeak 1924
- Ettapeak 1920
- Lulapeak 1921
- Vinapeak 1920
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.