Jetta

Where Jetta comes from

Jetta 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. 1887
    First appearance
    #1,036 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #940
    9 babies named Jetta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    Jetta Goudal born
    actress
  4. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1957
    Jetta Klijnsma born
    King's Commissioner of Drenthe
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jetta Goudal · actress, 1891–1985
  • Jetta Klijnsma · King's Commissioner of Drenthe, born 1957

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.