How rare is the name Etta?

10,485 people in the United States have the first name Etta, about 1 in 28,806. It ranks #2,387 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ETTA

#2,387

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,485
About
1 in 28,806
This common or more
79.6%
Who bears it

Of the 10,485 people named Etta, 64.6% reported their origin as White, 27% as Black and 3.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Etta peaked in 1920, when 803 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
803
In 2025*
281 ▼65%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 43,291 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Etta by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #122. The largest share of babies named Etta, 35.9%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1223,973
1890s#1524,670
1900s#2154,003
1910s#3706,259
1920s#4556,971
1930s#5234,811
1940s#7083,797
1950s#1,0332,480
1960s#1,4601,463
1970s#3,149458
1980s#5,691237
1990s#8,974172
2000s#6,958342
2010s#2,2062,004
2020s#1,7881,651
Before 190121.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2735.9%
Silent Generation 1928–4519.5%
Baby boom 1946–6411.1%
Generation X 1965–802.3%
Millennials 1981–960.8%
Generation Z 1997–121.6%
2013 and later7.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Etta is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Etta has been most common in Mississippi (3.3×), Arkansas (3.1×), and Kentucky (2.8×), and least common in California (0.27×).

26,527 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Etta

#2,385 Kennedi · 10,494#2,386 Chong · 10,492#2,388 Francesco · 10,482#2,389 Maximo · 10,476

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Etta, most common first.

#16,369 Etty · 690#24,098 Etha · 402#40,711 Eta · 182

Also a last name

As a last name, Etta ranks #80,550 of 156,621, with 254 people. See Etta as a last name

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