Yetta
Yetta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 402nd, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916197 births
- Best rank
- #402in 1913
- Since 1880
- 3,793people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,793 girls have been named Yetta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 197 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 197 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1910s alone account for 40%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Yetta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 49 | |
| 1890s | 227 | |
| 1900s | 413 | |
| 1910s | 1,502 | |
| 1920s | 919 | |
| 1930s | 181 | |
| 1940s | 63 | |
| 1950s | 127 | |
| 1960s | 116 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 62 | |
| 1990s | 11 | |
| 2000s | 6 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Yetta was the 455th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Yetta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lucilepeak 1917
- Fernepeak 1916
- Idellpeak 1921
- Marguerittepeak 1919
- Edythepeak 1918
- Hildegardepeak 1915
- Leonepeak 1916
- Beatricepeak 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.