Gretta

Where Gretta comes from

From Margaret. A rare variant of Greta.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gretta
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1895
    Peak, #788
    16 babies named Gretta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,213.
  4. 1944
    Gretta Kok born
    swimmer
  5. 1985
    Gretta Taslakian born
    Lebanese sprinter
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Gretta Taslakian · Lebanese sprinter, born 1985
  • Gretta Kok · swimmer, born 1944
  • Gretta Chambers · Canadian journalist, 1927–2017
  • Gretta Duisenberg · Dutch female political activist, born 1942
  • Gretta Ray · Australian singer-songwriter, born 1998

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.