Wretha

Last seen for girls in 1943 at #3,801

Peak · girls
1907 · 6 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
206
since 1904

Wretha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wretha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201907peak #1,821, 1907girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1943#3,8017
1942#3,7387
1941#3,5597
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1937#4,2555
1936#3,7016
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1933#3,1098
1932#3,2748
1931#3,4977
1930#3,3458
1929#3,3948
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1927#4,2866
1926#4,3066
1925#4,4266
1924#3,3939
1923#3,9717
1922#5,0095
1921#3,6668
1920#3,09710
1919#3,4528
1918#3,5128
1917#3,3448
1916#3,0319
1915#2,38412
1914#3,6185
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1908#2,1015
1907#1,8216
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1905#1,9315
1904#1,8775
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First appearance
1904

The first year at least five girls were named Wretha! It came in at #1,877, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1904–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Wretha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1943
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1904
  • Peaked 1907 at #1,821 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1909, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 53,094
  • Highest: 1 in 53,094 girls born in 1907 were named Wretha (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 199,328 girls born in 1943 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 31.6% of all girls named Wretha (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s21#1,821 (1907)#1,933
1910s50#2,384 (1915)#3,224
1920s65#3,097 (1920)#3,950
1930s49#3,109 (1933)#3,519
1940s21#3,559 (1941)#3,699

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wretha in 1907

girls
#1,821
6 births · 1 in 53,094 girls

Top girls' names in 1907

  1. #1Mary17,580
  2. #2Helen7,579
  3. #3Margaret6,713
  4. #4Anna5,575
  5. #5Ruth5,573
  6. #6Dorothy4,967
  7. #7Elizabeth4,624
  8. #8Mildred4,277
  9. #9Alice4,107
  10. #10Marie3,880
  11. #1,821Wretha6
More about 1907

girls

318,564 girls got a published name in 1907; 1 in 53,094 of them was named Wretha, which outranked 24.1% of the 2,399 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wretha
  1. #1,639Yvette7
  2. #1,639Zelia7
  3. #1,639Zillah7
  4. #1,821Wretha6
  5. #1,821Adelaida6
  6. #1,821Adelyn6
  7. #1,821Ader6
  8. #2,061Abby5
  9. #2,061Adda5
  10. #2,061Adel5

Tied with 239 names at #1,821; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1906
Risers
  1. 1,028Lota#1,951#923
  2. 1,028Tula#1,951#923
  3. 961Cleda#1,951#990
  4. 961Ingrid#1,951#990
  5. 961Santa#1,951#990
Fallers
  1. 926Macy#895#1,821
  2. 742Libbie#642#1,384
  3. 736Hertha#776#1,512
  4. 719Zadie#793#1,512
  5. 674Anabel#965#1,639

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1907