Anetta
Anetta was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 569 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,887, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1962, the peak
Anetta peaked in 1962, when 18 girls were given it, #2,925 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #15,887 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,071 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,746 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,506 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,740 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,583 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,710 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,225 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,720 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,471 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #8,338 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,145 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,098 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,730 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,787 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,850 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,561 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,958 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,881 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,805 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,925 | 9.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,182 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,442 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,382 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,491 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,472 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,752 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,493 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,690 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,558 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,853 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,252 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,143 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,713 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,224 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,396 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,951 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,045 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,198 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,670 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,218 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,746 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,946 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,152 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,527 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,443 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,166 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,415 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,287 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,866 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,572 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,692 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,883 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,886 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,448 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,014 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,134 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,155 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,040 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,980 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,226 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,302 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,728 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,272 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,304 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,896 | 9.2 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,807 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 315 Americans named Anetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 629 people named Anetta (628 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 361 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Anetta?
Anetta is a less common spelling of Annetta: SSA has recorded 569 Anetta and 8,814 Annetta since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 400,197 babies since 1880, Anetta is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 336 babies recorded by SSA was a Anetta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Anetta
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 Anetta and names like it
- Compare Anetta and AnnettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sAnetta peaked in 1962.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Anetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Anetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.