Greta is a short form of Margareta, which like Margaret derived from the Greek ‘margarites’ meaning ‘pearl’. These names are known in almost all European countries.
Greta is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Greta isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Greta ranks 601. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Greta. In the entire USA, approximately 20,736 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Greta. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Greta is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Greta and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Greta, you can simply say:
Goat
Rocket
Elephant
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Greta
Greta
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
R
E
T
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
R
E
T
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Greta sounds like this:
