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Etta

Pronounced /ˈɛtə/

Rank in 2024
#975
Born in 2024
266
Peak year
1920 · #231
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 266 girls were named Etta, about 1 in every 6,065.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 803 babies, ranked #231.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 42,985 girls have been named Etta since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Etta per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.8
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 15,511 babies, 0.76 per 1,000. Silent: 8,422 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,816 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 985 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 345 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 682 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,073 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A short form of Henrietta or of other female given names ending in -etta.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈɛtə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Etta, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Ettie

    Rank
    #10,810
    Born '24
    9
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 18912024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Yetta

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19162024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Etha

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19202024