Meaning not yet researched.
Retta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #324 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #324 in 1880; #12,903 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Retta in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,903 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #324.
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Retta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #324 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 60 (1934).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Retta, making it the 12,903rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 270 places from #13,173 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 girls named Retta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #324, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 60, in 1934. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,300 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Retta in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 25 babies. In all, 3,399 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 482 babies named Retta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 55 US girls were named Retta; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rita (285,230 babies since 1880), Retha (10,597 babies since 1880), Reta (8,616 babies since 1880) and Reatha (2,624 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rhetta 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rhetta (621).
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 Retta in the open dataset we use.
Retta is listed as a nickname for Henrietta, Loretta.
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 | 7 | #12,903 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,173 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,093 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,976 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,019 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,265 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,797 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,844 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,636 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,009 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,985 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,838 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,535 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,328 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,315 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,266 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,577 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,037 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,015 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,336 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,105 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,864 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,657 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,621 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,731 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,896 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,591 | — | — |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1955 | 48 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1951 | 58 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1950 | 50 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1949 | 50 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1948 | 42 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1946 | 45 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1945 | 50 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1944 | 46 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1935 | 48 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1934 | 60 | #886 | — | — |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1932 | 48 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1928 | 48 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1922 | 60 | #967 | — | — |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1920 | 48 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1911 | 25 | #870 | — | — |
| 1910 | 22 | #935 | — | — |
| 1909 | 22 | #886 | — | — |
| 1908 | 24 | #806 | — | — |
| 1907 | 29 | #708 | — | — |
| 1906 | 20 | #839 | — | — |
| 1905 | 26 | #709 | — | — |
| 1904 | 24 | #724 | — | — |
| 1903 | 29 | #625 | — | — |
| 1902 | 29 | #618 | — | — |
| 1901 | 33 | #537 | — | — |
| 1900 | 40 | #538 | — | — |
| 1899 | 32 | #536 | — | — |
| 1898 | 34 | #554 | — | — |
| 1897 | 28 | #579 | — | — |
| 1896 | 31 | #545 | — | — |
| 1895 | 34 | #509 | — | — |
| 1894 | 28 | #552 | — | — |
| 1893 | 28 | #532 | — | — |
| 1892 | 26 | #550 | — | — |
| 1891 | 27 | #505 | — | — |
| 1890 | 26 | #520 | — | — |
| 1889 | 24 | #529 | — | — |
| 1888 | 31 | #449 | — | — |
| 1887 | 30 | #402 | — | — |
| 1886 | 28 | #413 | — | — |
| 1885 | 28 | #391 | — | — |
| 1884 | 21 | #447 | — | — |
| 1883 | 22 | #408 | — | — |
| 1882 | 23 | #376 | — | — |
| 1881 | 17 | #416 | — | — |
| 1880 | 25 | #324 | — | — |
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).