Aretta
Aretta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192333 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1900
- 1,142people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,142 girls have been named Aretta in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 33 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 33 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 24%.
By decade
In 1923, its biggest year
Aretta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Aretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnsiepeak 1918
- Olethapeak 1923
- Mayolapeak 1922
- Theolapeak 1924
- Concettapeak 1924
- Germainepeak 1928
- Magdalinepeak 1921
- Aleanpeak 1927
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.