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How popular is the name Greta?
Births per year, rank history and how many Gretas are alive today.
Greta (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1512th in 2025 and given to 20 babies. The name peaked in 2016, when 83 babies were given the name, the 516th most popular that year. It has declined since 2016; the 2025 figure is roughly 24% of its peak. Common short forms of Greta include Maja, Peggy and Meg.
The Greta you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Gretas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 20, and there are at least 1,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Greta - on average, only one in every 225 such rooms contains a Greta.
How many babies are named Greta each year?
Where does Greta rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Greta most popular?
Greta peaked in 2016, when 83 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Greta?
At least 1,400 people named Greta born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Greta?
Most living Gretas are between 9 and 20; the most common age is about 11.
Is Greta becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2016 peak.