Etta

Where Etta comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Etta.

  • Vowel-ended
Etta through the years
  1. 1743
    Etta Palm born
    Dutch feminist and spy
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #72 among girls with 323 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1913
    Etta Baker born
    American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer
  4. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #835.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Etta Palm · Dutch feminist and spy, 1743–1799
  • Etta Baker · American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer, 1913–2006
  • Etta Jones · American jazz singer, 1928–2001
  • Etta Cameron · Bahamian singer, 1939–2010
  • Etta Zuber Falconer · American mathematician & academic, 1933–2002

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.