Eta

Girls' name

Noble, through Etela

Eta has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1922, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Eta, 1922

1 in 458,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eta: meaning, origin, and history

Noble, through Etela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Eta means

Eta belongs to the name family reached through Eta → Etela → Ethel. Its meaning is “noble”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eta is used in Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Etela and Ethel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Eta is pronounced /eta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Eta between 1922 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #5,256 in 1922.

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 Eta?

Eta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922: 1 in 458,000; 5 of 2,289,103 births
Among girls only: 1 in 240,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1922: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,338 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Eta 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 1922 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 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Etas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eta was born before 1922 — so the typical Eta is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% 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

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Eta 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 1922 (5)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,256; 1922

Eta around the world

Where Eta 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
2024–2024
#5,892
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Eta 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: #5,256; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 5 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1922
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Eta

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

Peta Etasha Maeta Beta Nieta Queta Weta Seta Ometa Oweta Uleta Veeta Seeta Deta Agneta Ogreta Gleeta Voleta Myreta Loweta Elreta Rozeta Deveta Laleta

Sibling names for Eta

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Rubie Tressie Filomena Lavinia

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Cletus Columbus Olen Hoyt

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