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Yetta

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Yetta has been given to 3,793 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 197 recorded.

Babies named Yetta, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yetta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yetta means

Yetta is a given name.

The naming story behind Yetta

Wikidata records Yetta as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q113128621, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,793 girls were recorded with the name Yetta between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 197 in 1916; its best national rank was #402 in 1913.

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.

How common is Yetta?

Yetta 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 Yetta 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 Yetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yetta was born before 1918 — so the typical Yetta is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.29%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
439
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1910s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (1,502).

Is Yetta 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 1916 (197)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#402
1913

Spellings of Yetta

Yetta is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 76.2% against Yetta's 0.29%.

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 Yetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Yetta was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 29,479 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 8,333
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Louisiana1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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. Yetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yetta 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
#402
1913
Peak year
1916
197 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
3,793
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yetta

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

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Names with a curve like Yetta

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

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Sibling names for Yetta

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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