girls:
4.1k births since 1881
#2697 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1881
#4293 (45th percentile)
The name Gretta is the #4,293 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,084 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 44.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,697 (52.8% percentile) for all time with 4,084 births since 1881.
Gretta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for girls in 1881). Birth data for Gretta is available in 140 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Gretta reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 12.8% percentile (ranked #646) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 65 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Gretta ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 27.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gretta".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gretta is pronounced as GREH-tuh, which has 2 syllables.
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