Meaning not yet researched.
Gretta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #800 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #800 in 1895; #5,466 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gretta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,466 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #800.
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Gretta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #800 in 1895 · most girls in one year: 100 (1966).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Gretta, making it the 5,466th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,050 places from #4,416 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 32 girls named Gretta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #800, reached in 1895. The most girls given the name in a single year was 100, in 1966. For comparison, it was #3,231 in 2015 and #1,848 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gretta in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 4,139 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 543 babies named Gretta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 401 US girls were named Gretta; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gretchen (53,837 babies since 1880) and Greta (27,791 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Gretta in the open dataset we use.
Gretta is listed as a nickname for Margaret, Margaretta.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,466 | — | — |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,296 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,214 | — | — |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,946 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,353 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,318 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,698 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,067 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,421 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,111 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,640 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,125 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,413 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,253 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,798 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,460 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,723 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,858 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1935 | 42 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1934 | 44 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1932 | 46 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1898 | 13 | #981 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1895 | 16 | #800 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1893 | 10 | #984 | — | — |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1890 | 11 | #847 | — | — |
| 1889 | 9 | #924 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #984 | — | — |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #872 | — | — |
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).