Etta

Where Etta comes from

Etta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1743
    Etta Palm born
    Dutch feminist and spy
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #72 among girls with 323 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1913
    Etta Baker born
    American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
  4. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #835.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Etta Palm · Dutch feminist and spy, 1743–1799
  • Etta Baker · American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer, 1913–2006
  • Etta Jones · American jazz singer, 1928–2001
  • Etta Cameron · Bahamian singer, 1939–2010
  • Etta Zuber Falconer · American mathematician & academic, 1933–2002

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.