Etta

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Etta: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Etta: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #141, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#141highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#2466
2002	#4137
2004	#3725
2006	#5061
2007	#3667
2008	#3860
2009	#2326
2010	#1993
2011	#1295
2012	#825
2013	#608
2014	#570
2015	#368
2016	#363
2017	#331
2018	#298
2019	#245
2020	#235
2021	#199
2022	#175
2023	#165
2024	#141

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #141 among girls in England and Wales, #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #541 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2024
Highest recorded position: #141 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1999–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #141 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Etta appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 2,429 births with the name.

Etta across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Etta's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#141 (2024)	#141 (2024)	23 of 26	2,429 (1999–2024)	353 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#397 (2020)	#266 (2022)	#337 (2024)	4 of 5	16 (2020–2024)	6 (2022)

Etta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Etta in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	36	7 of 10	5
2010s	976	10 of 10	98
2020sbusiest	1,414	5 of 10	283

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 283 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 63, from 200 to 263.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Etta appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #141 in England and Wales in 2024.

Etta's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#141	353	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#165	309	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#175	289	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#199	263	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#235	200	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#245	198	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#298	158	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#331	144	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#363	129	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#368	123	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#570	74	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#608	67	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1295	24	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#266	6	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #141, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 353 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Avery · #140, 24y
Cayden · #140, 26y
Colton · #142, 26y
Fia · #136, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avery · #140, 24y
Colton · #142, 26y
Kacie · #142, 30y
Lenny · #140, 30y

Etta was ranked #141 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Etta and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Etta without appearing here.

Etta moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1295 and #5785.
Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2326 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1993 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1993 and #5707.
Cecilie Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3860 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2326 and #5556.

Moved ahead of Etta

Harper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2466 and #3262 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #3725 and #3725.

Moved the opposite way to Etta

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Etta

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Etta went from #3900 to #141 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #141 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Etta

Etta at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Etta across 2 official records

Etta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Etta appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Etta at a glance

Etta across 2 official records

Etta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Etta appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Etta

Etta and the names beside it

Etta moved ahead of

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