Grettel — #2352 US girls' name
1,049 babies named Grettel in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 87% of names given to girls today.
56% of everyone ever named Grettel was born in this single decade.
94 babies were named Grettel in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Grettel
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,049 babies named Grettel between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Grettel currently holds the #2352 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 94 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Grettel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 585 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Grettel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 358 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Grettel in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Grettel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,049 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Grettel at a glance
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Current rank
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Grettel popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1993
- Peak year (2018)
- 94
- Annual births at peak — across 32 years of records
Currently ranks #2352 among girls.
1,049 total births across 32 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 94 births in a single year.
Grettel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 585 births that decade — 56% of Grettel's all-time total
Grettel decade highlights
- Peak decade 585 births
- Runner-up 346 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Grettel's strongest decade
585 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 56% of all-time use.
Grettel by state
Where Grettel concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 358 | 34.1% |
| #2 | California | | 188 | 17.9% |
| #3 | Arizona | | 25 | 2.4% |
| #4 | Tennessee | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Colorado | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Florida | | 5 | 0.5% |
358 of 1,049 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 34.1% of nationwide
- California 17.9% of nationwide
- Arizona 2.4% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.6% of nationwide
- Colorado 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 34.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.