Zeta

Where Zeta comes from

Zeta 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. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #931
    12 babies named Zeta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,696.
  4. 1958
    Zeta Bosio born
    Argentine bassist
  5. 1978
    Zeta Makrypoulia born
    Greek actress, model and television presenter
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Zeta Bosio · Argentine bassist, born 1958
  • Zeta Makrypoulia · Greek actress, model and television presenter, born 1978

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.