Anetra
Anetra was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 423 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anetra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anetra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,872, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1976, the peak
Anetra peaked in 1976, when 66 girls were given it, #1,536 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #13,872 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,648 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,591 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,628 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,764 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,070 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,727 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,889 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,820 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,602 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 12 | #5,554 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,085 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,725 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,347 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 19 | #3,999 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,051 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,693 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,274 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,536 | 45.0 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,139 | 27.4 |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,563 | 41.6 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,172 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,311 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,378 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,508 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,907 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,306 | 3.6 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,905 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anetra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anetra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anetra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anetra, and how old are they?
An estimated 400 Americans named Anetra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 45 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 369 people named Anetra (368 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 406 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,182 babies since 1880, Anetra is the second most given (8.2% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anetra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anetra and names like it
- Compare Anetra and AnitraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAnetra peaked in 1976.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anetra since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Anetra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Anetra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.