Meaning not yet researched.
Greta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 291 in 2025. Its best rank was #317 in 1932.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #317 in 1932; #908 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Greta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#908 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1932, at #317.
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Greta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 291 girls in 2025. Peak: #317 in 1932 · most girls in one year: 534 (1967).
In 2025, 291 US girls were named Greta, making it the 908th most common girls’ name of the year, down 46 places from #862 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 314 girls named Greta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #317, reached in 1932. The most girls given the name in a single year was 534, in 1967. For comparison, it was #575 in 2015 and #718 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Greta in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 27,791 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,712 babies named Greta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,838 US girls were named Greta; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 519. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,523 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Greta ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #133 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gretchen (53,837 babies since 1880) and Gretta (4,139 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gretna and Greeta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German, Polish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gretna (112), Greeta (25).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Greta in the open dataset we use.
Greta is listed as a nickname for Margarita.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 40 | #133 | #75 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #330 | #296 |
| Kansas | 9 | #375 | #311 |
| Iowa | 8 | #406 | #212 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #452 | #491 |
| Utah | 9 | #457 | #281 |
| Illinois | 17 | #583 | #403 |
| Colorado | 8 | #662 | #373 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #665 | #427 |
| Indiana | 9 | #680 | #518 |
| Ohio | 12 | #761 | #470 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,006 | #1,018 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,033 | — |
| New York | 13 | #1,111 | #868 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,115 | #379 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,119 | #466 |
| California | 23 | #1,123 | #892 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,249 | #638 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,486 | #971 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 291 | #908 | — | — |
| 2024 | 314 | #862 | — | — |
| 2023 | 283 | #938 | — | — |
| 2022 | 324 | #859 | — | — |
| 2021 | 336 | #827 | — | — |
| 2020 | 370 | #740 | — | — |
| 2019 | 462 | #637 | — | — |
| 2018 | 519 | #589 | — | — |
| 2017 | 466 | #634 | — | — |
| 2016 | 473 | #633 | — | — |
| 2015 | 533 | #575 | — | — |
| 2014 | 494 | #597 | — | — |
| 2013 | 479 | #594 | — | — |
| 2012 | 444 | #642 | — | — |
| 2011 | 411 | #684 | — | — |
| 2010 | 431 | #671 | — | — |
| 2009 | 417 | #696 | — | — |
| 2008 | 434 | #696 | — | — |
| 2007 | 434 | #675 | — | — |
| 2006 | 411 | #688 | — | — |
| 2005 | 405 | #685 | — | — |
| 2004 | 379 | #708 | — | — |
| 2003 | 376 | #695 | — | — |
| 2002 | 319 | #756 | — | — |
| 2001 | 279 | #829 | — | — |
| 2000 | 301 | #757 | — | — |
| 1999 | 253 | #856 | — | — |
| 1998 | 182 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1997 | 161 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1996 | 159 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1989 | 112 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1986 | 115 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1985 | 110 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1984 | 138 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1983 | 133 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1982 | 167 | #906 | — | — |
| 1981 | 210 | #780 | — | — |
| 1980 | 199 | #811 | — | — |
| 1979 | 205 | #778 | — | — |
| 1978 | 153 | #926 | — | — |
| 1977 | 147 | #946 | — | — |
| 1976 | 178 | #793 | — | — |
| 1975 | 194 | #742 | — | — |
| 1974 | 231 | #661 | — | — |
| 1973 | 231 | #649 | — | — |
| 1972 | 223 | #671 | — | — |
| 1971 | 304 | #576 | — | — |
| 1970 | 344 | #544 | — | — |
| 1969 | 348 | #525 | — | — |
| 1968 | 421 | #467 | — | — |
| 1967 | 534 | #394 | — | — |
| 1966 | 433 | #451 | — | — |
| 1965 | 255 | #607 | — | — |
| 1964 | 226 | #680 | — | — |
| 1963 | 287 | #585 | — | — |
| 1962 | 275 | #604 | — | — |
| 1961 | 362 | #513 | — | — |
| 1960 | 321 | #540 | — | — |
| 1959 | 347 | #521 | — | — |
| 1958 | 295 | #573 | — | — |
| 1957 | 276 | #580 | — | — |
| 1956 | 255 | #592 | — | — |
| 1955 | 236 | #602 | — | — |
| 1954 | 194 | #665 | — | — |
| 1953 | 191 | #646 | — | — |
| 1952 | 178 | #666 | — | — |
| 1951 | 194 | #618 | — | — |
| 1950 | 143 | #718 | — | — |
| 1949 | 122 | #783 | — | — |
| 1948 | 158 | #666 | — | — |
| 1947 | 138 | #728 | — | — |
| 1946 | 107 | #797 | — | — |
| 1945 | 95 | #769 | — | — |
| 1944 | 95 | #785 | — | — |
| 1943 | 140 | #642 | — | — |
| 1942 | 135 | #644 | — | — |
| 1941 | 127 | #629 | — | — |
| 1940 | 149 | #569 | — | — |
| 1939 | 159 | #528 | — | — |
| 1938 | 212 | #462 | — | — |
| 1937 | 217 | #447 | — | — |
| 1936 | 235 | #422 | — | — |
| 1935 | 271 | #388 | — | — |
| 1934 | 319 | #353 | 5 | #3,893 |
| 1933 | 338 | #336 | — | — |
| 1932 | 400 | #317 | — | — |
| 1931 | 383 | #326 | — | — |
| 1930 | 345 | #360 | — | — |
| 1929 | 283 | #397 | — | — |
| 1928 | 235 | #443 | — | — |
| 1927 | 146 | #586 | — | — |
| 1926 | 107 | #699 | — | — |
| 1925 | 67 | #909 | — | — |
| 1924 | 76 | #861 | — | — |
| 1923 | 71 | #872 | — | — |
| 1922 | 61 | #955 | — | — |
| 1921 | 60 | #959 | — | — |
| 1920 | 62 | #924 | — | — |
| 1919 | 75 | #813 | — | — |
| 1918 | 84 | #783 | — | — |
| 1917 | 94 | #717 | — | — |
| 1916 | 111 | #643 | — | — |
| 1915 | 103 | #653 | — | — |
| 1914 | 83 | #636 | — | — |
| 1913 | 52 | #726 | — | — |
| 1912 | 72 | #568 | — | — |
| 1911 | 39 | #700 | — | — |
| 1910 | 28 | #817 | — | — |
| 1909 | 25 | #821 | — | — |
| 1908 | 33 | #672 | — | — |
| 1907 | 26 | #745 | — | — |
| 1906 | 32 | #637 | — | — |
| 1905 | 38 | #566 | — | — |
| 1904 | 21 | #785 | — | — |
| 1903 | 19 | #797 | — | — |
| 1902 | 25 | #677 | — | — |
| 1901 | 20 | #729 | — | — |
| 1900 | 32 | #625 | — | — |
| 1899 | 23 | #650 | — | — |
| 1898 | 33 | #561 | — | — |
| 1897 | 23 | #650 | — | — |
| 1896 | 20 | #713 | — | — |
| 1895 | 20 | #708 | — | — |
| 1894 | 21 | #650 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #841 | — | — |
| 1892 | 15 | #777 | — | — |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1890 | 14 | #741 | — | — |
| 1889 | 16 | #649 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #917 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #890 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1885 | 6 | #972 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).