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Neta

Girls' name

Plant, shrub

Neta has been given to 3,226 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1920, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Neta, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Neta: meaning, origin, and history

Plant, shrub

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Neta means

Neta means “plant, shrub”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Neta is used in Hebrew.

Origin, language, and formation

Neta is used in Estonian.

Neta comes through Swedish Agneta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agneta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,226 girls were recorded with the name Neta between 1881 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1920; its best national rank was #568 in 1885.

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 Neta?

Neta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Neta 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Neta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Netas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Neta was born before 1931 — so the typical Neta is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
689
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (587).

Is Neta 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1920 (82)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#568
1885

Spellings of Neta

Neta is not the most common spelling — Eva is, with 10.9% against Neta's 0.12%.

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 Neta is used

Across 1910–2025, Neta was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 73,677 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8California1 in —

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. Neta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Neta around the world

Where Neta 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
    1997–2025
    #7,278
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1944–1973
    #695
    in 1973

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

Notable people named Neta

People whose public names include Neta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Neta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Neta. Linked forms have their own page here.

MetaNitaAnetaNetta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Neta 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
#568
1885
Peak year
1920
82 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,226
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Neta

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

NettaZetaLetaAletaVetaMetaCletaRetaNethraOletaOnetaNetanyaFletaGretaNettieRhetaWanetaAlmetaVioletaAnetaNethaLavetaJulietaNetra

Names with a curve like Neta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Neta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LouveniaRosiaWilliaBernardineLuveniaAnnisAugustineMargeZonaPalmaReathaLavada

Sibling names for Neta

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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