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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Retha

Recorded for girlsSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

10,597

peak year 1924

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1924
252 births
Best rank
#431
in 1901
First recorded
1884
#1,006 that year
Last recorded
2014
no later published record
Average birth year
1937
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
113 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1924252#440Peak
  2. 1918218#455
  3. 1922215#467
  4. 1921214#473
  5. 1919213#456

Rank over time

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

Best rank #431 in 1901 · peak births 252 in 1924

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 Retha has ranked, decade by decade

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

The boys' series

No boys have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.