Birtha
Birtha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 613th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192667 births
- Best rank
- #613in 1900
- Since 1880
- 1,973people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,973 girls have been named Birtha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 67 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 67 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1926, its biggest year
Birtha was the 912th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Birtha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Etherpeak 1921
- Zelmapeak 1919
- Beaulahpeak 1921
- Gerthapeak 1921
- Verdapeak 1918
- Vergiepeak 1919
- Hildapeak 1921
- Lossiepeak 1921
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.