Netta
Netta was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,678 among girls’ names; 1,116 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Netta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Netta mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Netta is “a female given name”
Diminutive of Latin Agneta, a Latinate variant of Agnes.
/ˈnetːɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Netta?
#10,678 among girls’ names, 2025
Netta rose from #12,684 in 2015 to #10,678 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.6 per million.
23 babies in 1922, the peak
Netta peaked in 1922, when 23 girls were given it, #1,823 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,678 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,430 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,887 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,093 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,075 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,143 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,185 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,694 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,684 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,754 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,702 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,585 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,345 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,637 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,034 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,882 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,420 | 4.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,970 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,117 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,872 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,835 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,957 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,810 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,210 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,975 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,253 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,365 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,735 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,829 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,289 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,774 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,560 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,645 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,157 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,843 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,172 | 4.2 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,354 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,314 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,536 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,935 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,455 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,903 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,332 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,189 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,411 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,496 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,989 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,317 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,692 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,468 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,387 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,705 | 8.9 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,917 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,308 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,420 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,940 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,073 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,685 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,538 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,114 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,743 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,031 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,403 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,260 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,368 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,602 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,922 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,088 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,399 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,377 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,151 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,233 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,578 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,482 | 12.0 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,140 | 14.9 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,823 | 19.2 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,595 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,691 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,469 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,792 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,173 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,784 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,862 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,795 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,507 | 25.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,086 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,131 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,891 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,037 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,987 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,290 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,223 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,086 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,991 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,296 | 34.1 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,533 | 25.7 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,352 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,099 | 42.0 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,270 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,114 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,389 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,151 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,072 | 43.1 |
| 1890 | 10 | #923 | 52.5 |
| 1889 | 12 | #785 | 67.3 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,244 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 8 | #921 | 54.8 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,233 | 34.6 |
| 1884 | 6 | #995 | 46.5 |
| 1883 | 8 | #740 | 71.2 |
| 1882 | 6 | #873 | 55.6 |
| 1881 | 5 | #913 | 54.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #815 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Netta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Netta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Netta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Netta, and how old are they?
An estimated 458 Americans named Netta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 19 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 663 people named Netta (651 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 490 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,941 babies since 1880, Netta is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 36 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
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 Netta
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 Netta and names like it
- Compare Netta and NettieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNetta peaked in 1922.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Netta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Netta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Netta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.