first name
GRETA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 22,240 people named Greta, 81.4% reported their origin as White, 9.6% as Black and 5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Greta peaked in 1967, when 534 babies got the name.
At least 27,791 babies have been given the name since 1885. 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.
Greta by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #699. The largest share of babies named Greta, 20.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Greta is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Greta has been most common in Minnesota (4.9×), Wisconsin (2.2×), and North Dakota (2.1×), and least common in Arizona (0.28×).
21,492 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.
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