Netta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Apparently a Latinate variant of Nettie, though in Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland it is more probably a feminine form of Neil
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Netta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.3Kas נטע(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 244Kas Neta
- FIFinland1 in 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 Netta 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 named נטע, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled נטע in IL Israel, RO Romania, LV Latvia.
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)
Apparently a Latinate variant of Nettie, though in Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland it is more probably a feminine form of Neil.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Netta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #321 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 121 | נטע | 69 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,203as Nata | 1 in 50K | 4.4K | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,728 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | Netta | 21 |
| US United States | — | 1,361as Neta | 1 in 244K | 1.3K | Netta | 204 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | נטע | 2 |
| AL Albania | — | 88as Neta | 1 in 35K | 88 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 40as Nata | 1 in 47K | 41 | נטע | 2 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
Netta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: apparently a Latinate variant of NETTIE , though in Gaelic Scotland it is more likely to represent a feminine form of NEIL .
as a word
In Polish, Netta (a right tributary of the Biebrza in Poland)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rif, he (third person masculine singular pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of netto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of nett
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Netta Muskettb. 1887GBBritish novelist
- Netta Alonib. 1945ILIsraeli composer
- Netta Zagagib. 1947ILIsraeli classical philologist
- Netta Dorchinb. 1969ILIsraeli entomologist
- Neta Hoterb. 1979ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli writer
- Netta Gartib. 1980ILIsraeli actress
- Netta Engelhardtb. 1988ILIsraeli-American mathematical physicist
- Netta Barzilaib. 1993ILIsraeli singer
- Netta YerushalmyUSIsraeli-American choreographer
- Netta MalkinsonILIsraeli canoeist
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 41 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 131 | #121,780 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 122 | #54,422 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 115 | #145,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
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
- What does the name Netta mean, and where does it come from?
- Apparently a Latinate variant of Nettie, though in Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland it is more probably a feminine form of Neil. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Netta a male or female name?
- Netta is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Netta?
- In the etymology graph, Gia, Janna and Nettie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Netta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named נטע in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Netta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Netta is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Netta?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,728 people named Netta, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Netta compared with other names?
- In Israel, Netta is the 321st most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Netta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nettaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Netta” — the 321st most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.