Neta

Where Neta comes from

Neta 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. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #557
    15 babies named Neta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1942
    Neta Bahcall born
    Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist
  5. 1994
    Neta Alchimister born
    Israeli model and businesswoman
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Neta Bahcall · Israeli astrophysicist and cosmologist, born 1942
  • Neta Alchimister · Israeli model and businesswoman, born 1994
  • Neta Riskin · Israeli actress and journalist, born 1976
  • Neta Elkayam · Israeli singer and artist, born 1980
  • Neta Dobrin · Israeli politician, born 1975

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.