Birtha
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Birtha has been given to 1,973 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1926, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Birtha, 1969
1 in 695,000
Birtha over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Birtha?
Birtha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1969
- 1 in 695,000
- 5 of 3,475,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 337,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1969
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,756 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Birtha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Birtha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Birthas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Birtha was born before 1924 — so the typical Birtha is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 159
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (554).
Is Birtha 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 1926 (67)
- Years since peak
- 99
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Birtha
Birtha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 70.1% against Birtha's 0.25%.
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.
Where Birtha is used
Across 1910–2025, Birtha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 48,317 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 5,556
- 2Arkansas1 in 16,667
- 3Alabama1 in 33,333
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Birtha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Birtha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Birtha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Birtha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.