Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Raetta

#25,148 most common girls' name of all time · #40,819 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1937–1972

Rank among girls
#25,148
Rank overall
#40,819 of 105,966
First appeared
1937
Years on the list
15 of 146
All-time
98
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1942 #3,701
Best rank
#3,701 1942
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19401960

Raetta first appears in 1937. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1972 5 — 5 #8,635
1962 6 — 6 #6,195
1961 6 — 6 #6,185
1960 7 — 7 #5,448
1958 6 — 6 #5,776
1953 7 — 7 #4,864
1951 7 — 7 #4,684
1949 8 — 8 #4,153
1948 8 — 8 #4,127
1946 8 — 8 #3,933
1944 6 — 6 #4,470
1942 8 — 8 #3,701
1940 6 — 6 #4,305
1938 5 — 5 #4,919
1937 5 — 5 #4,907