Etta

What Etta means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Etta yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,082 in 2015 to #928 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Etta?

US: Rising: up from #1082 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #368 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 323 girls got the name (#72 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,720 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 749 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (2.96 per 1,000 girls), ID (1.4 per 1,000 girls), MN (1.07 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Etta is #928 in the US and #147 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Etta were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Etty35 US · 11 E&W
• Eda22 US · 18 E&W
• Ita25 US · 6 E&W
• Edda9 US
• Eida7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Etta

Girls

• Vera#205“faith”^*
• Charlie#133Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #133 vs #747 in 2025
• Nora#20Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*

For a brother

• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Etta’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.