Girtha
Girtha was last recorded in 1959, when 6 babies were given it; 597 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Girtha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Girtha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,807, in 1959; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1919, the peak
Girtha peaked in 1919, when 22 girls were given it, #1,768 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | #5,807 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,577 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,124 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,471 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,337 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,820 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,499 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,808 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,830 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,607 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 13 | #2,583 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,133 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,473 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,244 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,021 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,020 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,950 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,141 | 14.3 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,631 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,931 | 16.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,290 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,242 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,243 | 13.3 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,360 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,023 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,841 | 18.4 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,028 | 16.0 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,842 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,946 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,400 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,219 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,806 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,110 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,768 | 19.5 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,577 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,244 | 13.9 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,985 | 16.3 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,994 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,179 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,420 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,043 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,852 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,237 | 35.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,243 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,711 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,823 | 20.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,059 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,403 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 13 | #997 | 49.6 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,505 | 26.5 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,207 | 34.8 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,345 | 29.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Girtha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Girtha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Girtha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Girtha, and how old are they?
An estimated 100 Americans named Girtha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 77 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 125 people named Girtha (125 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Girtha
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 Girtha and names like it
- Compare Girtha and CledaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGirtha peaked in 1919.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Girtha since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Girtha.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Girtha alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with GMost given first.