Birta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Birta has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1945, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Birta, 1945

1 in 332,000

Birta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Birta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Birta means

Birta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Birta is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Birta between 1933 and 1945. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1945; its best national rank was #3,417 in 1945.

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.

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How common is Birta?

Birta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1945, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1945: 1 in 332,000; 8 of 2,652,840 births
Among girls only: 1 in 163,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1945: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 229,852 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Birta 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 1945 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 229,852 children born in 1945 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Birta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Birtas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Birta was born before 1938 — so the typical Birta is around 87 today.

Median birth year: 1938; About 87 years old
Biggest decade: 1930s; 57.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1930s — 57.9% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Birta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1945 (8)
Years since peak: 80; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,417; 1945

Spellings of Birta

Birta is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 38.5% against Birta's <0.01%.

Rita38.5%284,452
Bertha28.2%207,870
Irma10.0%73,769
Kira5.5%40,829
Marta2.4%17,535
Bria2.3%16,815
Mira2.0%15,096
Nita1.9%14,268

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.

Birta 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,417; 1945
Peak year: 1945; 8 that year
First recorded: 1933
Last recorded: 1945
All-time count: 19
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Birta

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

Birdi Birdy Birklee Birdee Birder Birute Birty Gerta Merta Birkley Birchie Birdine Birklynn Birt Biruta Birdye Blerta Biranna Barta Bird Birdene Herta Birthel Leberta

Sibling names for Birta

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

For a sister

Jerrie Dian Carolann Karolyn Elida Reta Janey Ernestina

For a brother

Lupe Connie Truman Domingo Fredric Felton Gale Jerold

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