Gretta

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gretta is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 638◐
  • NONorway1 in 692
  • SESweden1 in 865

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈70K ●

across 14 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
367 ●

222K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 638 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

GretaLatin · English●159K records
גרטהHebrew · Hebrew●3.9K records
ᲒრეთაGeorgian · Georgian●7 records
ΓκρεταGreek · Greek●3 records

Locally spelled Greta in US United States, HU Hungary, NO Norway and 21 more and גרטה in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gretta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—22,213160K rec.1 in 15K22KGreta367
HU Hungary#17115,308△400 rec.1 in 63815KGreta83
GB United Kingdom#97813,78713K rec.—listedGreta118
SE Sweden#36811,798△2.5K rec.1 in 86512KGreta49
DE Germany—9,9466.9K rec.—2Greta147
AU Australia—7,9837.1K rec.—2Greta138
NO Norway#5637,903△667 rec.1 in 69227KGreta37
AT Austria#3915,586538 rec.—1.6KGreta51
IT Italy#9145,0774.4K rec.—1.8KGreta109
LT Lithuania#1234,9502.8K rec.—listedGreta126
ES Spain—3,935△780 rec.1 in 13K3.9KGreta47
CA Canada—3,9353.3K rec.—2Greta97

Roughly 22K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 15K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English28K67%
  • Spanish4K10%
  • German1.5K4%
  • 1.2K3%
  • Portuguese8942%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English28,22367%
Spanish4,03510%
German1,5144%
1,2353%
Portuguese8942%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gretta is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6.1K records spelled Gretta4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Grëttä

  • French given name700 records spelled Gretta3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, South Africa

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Grétta

  • Russian given name274 records spelled Gretta6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Гретта

  • Russian given name47 records spelled Gretta53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Грета, Greta, Грэта, Grete, Грете

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gretta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, feminine singular of gretto

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, to make a face

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0255075100190019502000100 · 1966

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Gretta in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18815
18855
18866
18877
18886
18899
189011
18918
18929
189310
189410
189516
18968
18977
189813
18996
190012
19017
190210
190310
190411
190513
190614
190710
190812
190911
191010
191118
191212
191315
191416
191531
191625
191718
191837
191924
192025
192115
192228
192329
192423
192519
192624
192730
192833
192934
193034
193136
193246
193340
193444
193542
193635
193742
193841
193929
194035
194128
194236
194322
194441
194531
194632
194735
194825
194930
195027
195125
195227
195324
195438
195528
195633
195737
195839
195936
196053
196121
196245
196324
196427
196527
1966100
196777
196868
196949
197047
197155
197241
197329
197440
197534
197623
197728
197821
197919
198029
198131
198228
198321
198415
198513
198616
19878
198815
198917
199016
199112
199223
199319
199426
199526
199625
199726
199823
199938
200041
200144
200229
200339
200445
200557
200635
200749
200838
200946
201070
201142
201258
201363
201446
201551
201664
201750
201847
201952
202032
202130
202240
202331
202432
202523

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 142 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Gretta Chambers, b. 1927Gretta Bader, b. 1931Gretta Duisenberg, b. 1942Gretta Kok, b. 1944Gretta Taslakian, b. 1985Nahomi Martínez, b. 1997Gretta Martínez, b. 1997Gretta Ray, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Gretta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203K#5,631
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—119—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1966100—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)196777—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—75#19,829
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201070—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)196868—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201664—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201363—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—60#10,581
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201258—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200557—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 341 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gretta?
We estimate roughly 70 thousand people bear Gretta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Gretta have the most bearers?
We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Gretta in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled greta.
Where is Gretta most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gretta is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 638 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Gretta compared with other names?
In Lithuania, Gretta is the 123rd most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
Is Gretta a male or female name?
Gretta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Gretta mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gretta” — the 123rd most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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