Eartha
Feminine · “the ground”
Eartha is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 2,920 girls against 32 boys since 1880.
Earth named the ground long before it named the planet, and it is the only planet in the solar system not named after a god. Every other one carries a Roman deity; this one carries the Old English word for soil, because nobody thought of it as a planet until very late.
How old is the name Eartha?
Eartha first appears in US birth records in 1905 — 120 years ago. The typical Eartha alive today was born around 1947, making them about 78 years old. About 1,600 people named Eartha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eartha most popular?
Eartha peaked in 1939, reaching #818 nationally. See the whole 1939 chart.
Where it comes from
From eorthe to Eartha
The story of Eartha
The planetary sense arrived only once people accepted that the ground under them was one object among several going round the sun, which is a recent idea, and by then the word was a thousand years old and thoroughly domestic. That is why the name has the texture it does: not celestial but agricultural, the same word a farmer uses. Eartha appears in American records at the start of the twentieth century, concentrated in the South, and it is recorded for boys as well as girls — which the ending would not predict and which fits the way word names behaved before their endings settled.
Meaning
the ground, the soil
The Old English eorthe meant soil, land and the world people live on. The added vowel is the American device for turning a word into a woman's name and carries no sense of its own.
How the name formed
- eorthe
- earth
- Eartha
Pronouncing Eartha
UR-thuh
Two syllables with the weight at the front, the first said exactly like the word. There is nothing to explain.
Nicknames for Eartha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1905
- Most girls named
- 1955108 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #818reached in 1939
- Change vs 1992
- 0.0%5 in 2020, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Earthas among us
people named Eartha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Eartha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The word behind it is familiar to every English speaker.
- It is spelled as it sounds and read correctly at first sight.
- It is genuinely uncommon while being entirely legible.
- It is a word name, which carries a meaning but no history to pass on.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States.
- It reads clearly as a name of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Earthas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Eartha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Eartha in 2025?
- Eartha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Eartha with classmates?
- Eartha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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