Peta

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
48years from first to last
#59highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1998	#3848
2000	#2416
2001	#2466
2002	#4137
2004	#4598
2005	#3382
2006	#4157
2007	#5201
2011	#5785
2012	#4838
2014	#3514
2015	#5730
2017	#5765

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 14 of the 22 years from 1996 to 2017.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1970–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1970
First recorded at #85 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1970 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1970–1983
Highest recorded position: #59 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1978 (recorded 1970–1983).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #5765 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Peta appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 14 ranked years and 57 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1970.

Peta 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.

Peta'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	#2683 (1996)	#2416 (2000)	#5765 (2017)	14 of 22	57 (1996–2017)	6 (2000)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#85 (1970)	#59 (1978)	#97 (1983)	13 of 14	1,311 (1970–1983)	133 (1978)

Peta 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 Peta in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	30	7 of 10	4
2010s	19	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1970 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #59 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978.

Peta'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
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2416	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
1983	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1982	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
1980	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
1979	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
1977	New South Wales, Australia	female	#75	103	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	female	#68	104	Insufficient	Not yet available
1975	New South Wales, Australia	female	#64	115	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New South Wales, Australia	female	#74	112	Insufficient	Not yet available
1973	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New South Wales, Australia	female	#90	106	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New South Wales, Australia	female	#83	113	Insufficient	Not yet available
1970	New South Wales, Australia	female	#85	106	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

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

Where Peta is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Peta, between 1970 and 2017, in 27 of those 48 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
New South Wales, Australia	1970–1983	13	#59 in 1978
England and Wales	1996–2017	14	#2416 in 2000

Its high point came 22 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (1978) than in England and Wales (2000).

No registrar recorded it for 12 years after 1983; it appears again in 1996.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Peta was ranked #59 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1978. 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.

Susan#55
Brooke#56
Leah#57
Jane#58
Stacey#60
Emily#61
Tammy#62
Simone#63

What is known about Peta

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1970–2017.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2 regions, from 1970 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #59 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Peta

Peta at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Peta across 2 official records

Peta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Peta is officially recorded

Names published alongside Peta

What is known about Peta

Peta at a glance

Peta across 2 official records

Peta by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Peta