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Jutta

Girls' name

Woman from Judah

Jutta has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1957, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Jutta, 1971

1 in 572,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jutta: meaning, origin, and history

Woman from Judah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jutta means

Jutta means “woman from Judah”, associated with Y'hudít.

Origin, language, and formation

Jutta is used in Faroese, Finnish and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Judith and Jytte.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Jutta is pronounced /ˈjutːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 38 girls were recorded with the name Jutta between 1957 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1957; its best national rank was #4,702 in 1957.

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 Jutta?

Jutta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971
1 in 572,000
6 of 3,432,187 births
Among girls only
1 in 277,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1971
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
396,503 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jutta 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 1971 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 396,503 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jutta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juttas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jutta was born before 1960 — so the typical Jutta is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
38
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Jutta 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 1957 (8)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,702
1957

Spellings of Jutta

Jutta is not the most common spelling — Julia is, with 84.1% against Jutta's <0.01%.

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.

Jutta around the world

Where Jutta 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.

  • France
    1941–1953
    #1,640
    in 1953
  • South Australia
    1956–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jutta 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
#4,702
1957
Peak year
1957
8 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jutta

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

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Sibling names for Jutta

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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