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Anetta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Anetta has been given to 569 babies in the U.S. since 1902. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Anetta, 2018

1 in 703,000

Anetta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anetta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anetta means

Anetta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Anetta is used in Icelandic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 569 girls were recorded with the name Anetta between 1902 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,807 in 1902.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anetta?

Anetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anetta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anetta was born before 1948 — so the typical Anetta is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.88%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
277
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (104).

Is Anetta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (18)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,807
1902

Spellings of Anetta

Anetta is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 34.7% against Anetta's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Anetta around the world

Where Anetta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1977–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Anetta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,807
1902
Peak year
1962
18 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
569
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anetta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Anetta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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