Eartha
Eartha was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 2,952 Americans have been recorded with it between 1905 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Eartha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eartha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eartha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eartha is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
19th-century coinage from earth + -a. Best known for the American singer Eartha Kitt.
/ˈɝθə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eartha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,764, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
108 babies in 1955, the peak
Eartha peaked in 1955, when 108 girls were given it, #949 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,764 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,841 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,915 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,732 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,874 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,345 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,289 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,859 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,604 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,275 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 11 | #5,658 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,719 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,192 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,241 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,960 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,829 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,143 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,994 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,876 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,231 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,948 | 23.2 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,093 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,605 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,079 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,078 | 17.4 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,900 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,562 | 26.4 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,845 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 61 | #1,408 | 30.2 |
| 1959 | 80 | #1,194 | 39.5 |
| 1958 | 60 | #1,366 | 29.8 |
| 1957 | 97 | #1,056 | 47.4 |
| 1956 | 101 | #1,016 | 50.3 |
| 1955 | 108 | #949 | 55.2 |
| 1954 | 93 | #1,013 | 47.9 |
| 1953 | 67 | #1,179 | 35.6 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,289 | 29.7 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,438 | 23.9 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,458 | 23.4 |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,325 | 28.1 |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,238 | 31.8 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,400 | 24.8 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,257 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 65 | #957 | 49.7 |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,206 | 32.4 |
| 1943 | 42 | #1,256 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 64 | #980 | 47.4 |
| 1941 | 50 | #1,035 | 41.4 |
| 1940 | 70 | #854 | 61.2 |
| 1939 | 71 | #819 | 64.7 |
| 1938 | 53 | #978 | 48.0 |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,088 | 40.4 |
| 1936 | 62 | #863 | 59.6 |
| 1935 | 48 | #997 | 45.8 |
| 1934 | 52 | #957 | 49.8 |
| 1933 | 59 | #881 | 58.5 |
| 1932 | 39 | #1,152 | 36.5 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,180 | 34.8 |
| 1930 | 55 | #995 | 48.8 |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,018 | 45.7 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,103 | 40.8 |
| 1927 | 50 | #1,084 | 41.9 |
| 1926 | 40 | #1,226 | 33.7 |
| 1925 | 38 | #1,277 | 31.2 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,154 | 36.8 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,272 | 31.5 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,439 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,309 | 29.2 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,413 | 26.7 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,399 | 27.4 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,706 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,793 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,281 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,635 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,711 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,384 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,885 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,571 | 23.9 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,815 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,198 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,152 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,019 | 17.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eartha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,952 Americans recorded as Eartha, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Eartha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eartha, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 2,952 Americans ever recorded as Eartha. The median Eartha alive today is 70 years old; half are between 64 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 1,543 people named Eartha (1,514 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,795 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 297 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 907 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 46 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Eartha born?
The states with the most babies named Eartha are South Carolina, Florida and Alabama, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 1,074 | not ranked | 19.2× |
| Florida | 160 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Alabama | 84 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 63 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 59 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 21 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Eartha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eartha is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 19.2 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 Eartha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,294 babies since 1880, Eartha is the most given (90% 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 Eartha
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 Eartha and names like it
- Compare Eartha and ErthaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sEartha peaked in 1955.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eartha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Eartha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Eartha.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Eartha alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with EMost given first.