Birtha
Birtha was last recorded in 1969, when 5 babies were given it; 1,973 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Birtha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Birtha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,575, in 1969; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1926, the peak
Birtha peaked in 1926, when 67 girls were given it, #912 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | #7,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,189 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 9 | #4,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,827 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,218 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,948 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,192 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,153 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,999 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,996 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,953 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,482 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 58 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 54 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 55 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 67 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 62 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 50 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 61 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 51 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 48 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 48 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 37 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 33 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1911 | 27 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 43 | #645 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 26 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 21 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 19 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 18 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 21 | #781 | 0.08 |
| 1903 | 23 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 24 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 16 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 33 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 18 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 16 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 18 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 11 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 11 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,306 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 7 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 10 | #737 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 6 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 5 | #844 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Birtha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Birtha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Birtha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Birtha, and how old are they?
An estimated 314 Americans named Birtha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 72 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 219 people named Birtha (219 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 53% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Birtha born?
The states with the most babies named Birtha are Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Arkansas and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 365 | not ranked | 10.4× |
| Arkansas | 111 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Alabama | 77 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 70 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 44 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 29 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Birtha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Birtha is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 10.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Birtha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Birtha
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 Birtha and names like it
- Compare Birtha and LomaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBirtha peaked in 1926.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Birtha since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Birtha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Birtha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.