girls:
42.7k births since 1880
#650 (89th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 1915
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
42.7k births since 1880
#1191 (85th percentile)
The name Etta is the #1,191 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 42,738 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #650 (88.6% percentile) for all time with 42,715 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1915.
Etta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Etta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Etta reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 73.1% percentile (ranked #77) with 2,639 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 3,309 births per million (ranked 67.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Etta ranks #677 for girls (28.5% percentile) with 161 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Etta reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #501) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1935.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Etta".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Etta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Etta is pronounced as EH-tuh, which has 2 syllables.
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