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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Etta

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#930

up +43 places

2025 births

281

up +14 births

All-time births

43,268

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1920
803 births
Best rank
#72
in 1880
First recorded
1880
#72 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1930
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1920803#230Peak
  2. 1915766#215
  3. 1918755#230
  4. 1917750#224
  5. 1916742#222

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #72 in 1880 · peak births 803 in 1920

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

23 boys · 43,268 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Etta has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.