Baby name

Etta

Girl

Comeback name

1920 was its best year: 803 births, or 1 baby in 2,818. Almost forgotten around 1999, with about 10 births a year, it has been climbing back since. Its rank in 2025: No. 928.

43,268births since 1880

1920sgeneration

No. 230rank at its peak, in 1920

Where babies named Etta are born

1920

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The darker the blue, the more common Etta is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Etta is most common in Mississippi (3 times), Arkansas (2.9) and North Carolina (2.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Esta 4,439
Yetta 3,793
Retta 3,399
Jetta 2,254
Zetta 2,058
Etha 1,802

Names from the same era

Jewel · Addie · Lorene · Lela · Estella · Effie

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