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Sweta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sweta has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1984, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Sweta, 2005

1 in 641,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sweta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sweta means

Sweta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sweta is used in English and Old English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Sweta is pronounced /ˈswe.tɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 girls were recorded with the name Sweta between 1979 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1984; its best national rank was #4,714 in 1984.

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 Sweta?

Sweta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 641,000
6 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
444,107 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sweta 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 2005 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 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sweta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Swetas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sweta was born before 1993 — so the typical Sweta is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Sweta 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 1984 (16)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,714
1984

Spellings of Sweta

Sweta is not the most common spelling — Greta is, with 20.9% against Sweta's 0.16%.

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 Sweta is used

Across 1910–2025, Sweta was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 443,769 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 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. Sweta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sweta around the world

Where Sweta 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
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #2,038
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1986–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sweta 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
#4,714
1984
Peak year
1984
16 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
217
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sweta

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

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Sibling names for Sweta

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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