Gretel Girl
How popular is Gretel?
#3,249 girl name in 2025
48 baby girls were named Gretel in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
Gretel popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,249 for girls (▼ 24 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 48 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+33% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,068 in 2015, #3,498 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (68 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,579 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1915 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Gretel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Grettel family of names ranked #1,632 for girls in 2025 (#1,342 the year before), with 94 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grettel | 38 | 40% |
| Gretel | 48 | 51% |
| Grettell | 8 | 9% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Gretel is most popular
Babies named Gretel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (69 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Georgia: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (26 girls)
Gretel by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,433 |
| 1920s | 31 | #3,051 |
| 1930s | 69 | #2,829 |
| 1940s | 25 | #2,844 |
| 1950s | 51 | #3,376 |
| 1960s | 87 | #4,221 |
| 1970s | 114 | #3,776 |
| 1980s | 99 | #4,742 |
| 1990s | 90 | #6,666 |
| 2000s | 193 | #5,169 |
| 2010s | 435 | #2,737 |
| 2020s | 307 | #2,579 |
Girl names about as popular as Gretel
Questions
- Is Gretel a boy or girl name?
- Gretel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Gretel were girls.
- How popular is the name Gretel?
- 48 baby girls were named Gretel in the US in 2025, making it the 3249th most popular girl name.
- When was Gretel most popular?
- Gretel peaked in 2022, when 68 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,579 in 2022.
- How many people are named Gretel?
- 1,514 babies have been named Gretel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,378 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 15.
- Where is Gretel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Gretel was most common in Texas, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.