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Uta

Girls' name

Riches, through Ute

Uta has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1964, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Uta, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uta: meaning, origin, and history

Riches, through Ute

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uta means

Uta belongs to the name family reached through Uta → Ute. Its meaning is “riches”.

Origin, language, and formation

Uta is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ute.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Uta between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1964; its best national rank was #5,095 in 1916.

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 Uta?

Uta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uta 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Utas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uta was born before 1968 — so the typical Uta is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Uta 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 1964 (6)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,095
1916

Uta around the world

Where Uta 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
    1942–1943
    #950
    in 1943
  • South Australia
    1947–1967
    #650
    in 1967

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.

Uta 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
#5,095
1916
Peak year
1964
6 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Uta

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

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Sibling names for Uta

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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