Greta: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced GREE-tuh · 2 syllables

From German and Swedish Greta, a contraction of Margareta.

How popular is Greta?

Greta was the #908 name in the US in 2025, given to 291 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 34% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1930.

Babies named Greta in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1930).

Half of US adults named Greta are older than 52; most are between 19 and 81. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Greta have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Greta is pronounced GREE-tuh.

Greta was the #908 name in the US in 2025, given to 291 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 34% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 1930.

Half of US adults named Greta are older than 52. Most are between 19 and 81.