Aretta
Recorded 1900–1991 · United States
Aretta was most popular in 1923, when 33 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,517 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,142 people named Aretta.
Aretta over time
How old is the name Aretta?
Aretta first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 71 of the 126 years since. It was last recorded in 1991.
How many people are named Aretta?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,142 American births named Aretta between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 374 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Aretta in 2025?
Aretta was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Aretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Aretta is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,142 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Aretta?
Roughly 374 Americans named Aretta are alive today — 33% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 72 years old, and half are between 63 and 81.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Aretta is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org