Grettel Girl
How popular is Grettel?
#3,831 girl name in 2025
38 baby girls were named Grettel in the US in 2025, making it the 3831st most popular girl name.
Grettel popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,831 for girls (▼ 1484 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 38 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-14% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,533 in 2015, #2,441 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (94 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,059 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1993 |
| 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 |
Grettel 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 Grettel is most popular
Babies named Grettel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (82 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Arizona: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Florida: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Grettel by decade
Girl names about as popular as Grettel
Questions
- Is Grettel a boy or girl name?
- Grettel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Grettel were girls.
- How popular is the name Grettel?
- 38 baby girls were named Grettel in the US in 2025, making it the 3831st most popular girl name.
- When was Grettel most popular?
- Grettel peaked in 2018, when 94 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,059 in 2018.
- How many people are named Grettel?
- 1,089 babies have been named Grettel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,084 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Grettel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Grettel 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.