girls:
27.2k births since 1885
#863 (85th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1934
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
27.2k births since 1885
#1540 (80th percentile)
The name Greta is the #1,540 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,187 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 80.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #863 (84.9% percentile) for all time with 27,182 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1934.
Greta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1934 for boys).
The name Greta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Greta reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 50.2% percentile (ranked #368) with 311 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 362 births per million (ranked 48.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Greta ranks #675 for girls (28.8% percentile) with 162 births per million, which is 44.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Greta reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #528) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1934.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Greta".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Greta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.5% confident that Greta is pronounced as GREH-tuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GREE-tuh, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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