Greta
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Greta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Lithuania it is the 41st most common given name. In English, recorded as A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 232(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 865
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Greta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 413 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 232 (inferred from the name graph)
22,240 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic diminutive of Margarita; also short form of Alegreta
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Greta is read(measured from records)
Greta is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Diminutive of Margaret; "pearl"
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diminutive of Margaret
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- Spanish10%
Germanic diminutive of Margarita; also short form of Alegreta
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Greta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 22,240 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Greta | 413 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 1.8K | Greta | 94 |
| HU Hungary | #906 | 15,308 | 1 in 638 | 15K | Greta | 89 |
| SE Sweden | #394 | 11,798 | 1 in 865 | 12K | Greta | 64 |
| LT Lithuania | #41 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 232 | listed | Greta | 131 |
| NO Norway | #769 | 7,903as Grete | 1 in 692 | 27K | Greta | 45 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,846as Grete | 1 in 2.1K | 2.8K | Greta | 60 |
22,240 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the lt-vlkk-vardai register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Greta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Short form of Marguerite, from Greek margarites, 'pearl'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Short form of Margareta, a Latinate form of Margaret. It became fairly popular in the English-speaking world as a result of the fame of the Swedish-born film actress Greta Garbo (1905-92; b. Greta Louisa Gustafsson).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Greta Garbob. 1905SESwedish-American actress (1905–1990)
- Greta Andersenb. 1927DKDanish swimmer
- Greta Van Susterenb. 1954USAmerican commentator, television personality, and lawyer
- Greta Scacchib. 1960ITItalian-Australian actress
- Greta Gerwigb. 1983USAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
- Greta Leeb. 1983USAmerican actress (born 1983)
- Greta Scaranob. 1986ITItalian actress
- Greta Klineb. 1994USAmerican musician
- Greta Fernándezb. 1995ESCatalan actress
- Greta Thunbergb. 2003SESwedish climate protection activist (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 22K | #1,500 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12K | #350 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5.2K | #630 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 4.6K | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1.8K | #14 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.6K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 429 | #636 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 291 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27 | #1,500 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Greta come from?
- Germanic diminutive of Margarita; also short form of Alegreta Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Greta a male or female name?
- Greta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Greta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Greta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled greta.
- What does the name Greta mean?
- In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- What are other forms of the name Greta?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Margareta and Margaretha.
- How common is the name Greta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,240 people named Greta in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Greta compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Greta is the 41st most common given name of 5,944 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gretaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Greta” — the 41st most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.