Sweta — girls' name
217 babies named Sweta in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1984. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
40% of everyone ever named Sweta was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Sweta in 1984 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sweta
The Social Security Administration has registered 217 babies named Sweta between 1979 and 2005, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sweta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sweta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sweta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sweta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sweta 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 217 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.
Sweta at a glance
Last recorded 2005Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sweta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–1979
- Peak year (1984)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2005.
217 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1984 with 16 births in a single year.
Sweta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 86 births that decade — 40% of Sweta's all-time total
Sweta decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 79 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Sweta's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 40% of all-time use.
Sweta by state
Where Sweta concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New Jersey | | 10 | 4.6% |
10 of 217 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New Jersey 4.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New Jersey accounts for 4.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1979–2005 (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.