Given name
Eartha
“woman of the earth”
Eartha is used as a given name. One German interpretation is “woman of the earth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “woman of the earth.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1905. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eartha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,952
- 32 boys · 2,920 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 108 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 108 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,543 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eartha’s family of names
Eartha has a related form in Ertha. Eartha has a related form in Earthe. Eartha has a related form in Erthe.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eartha
- Eartha KittAmerican singer and actress (1927–2008)
- Eartha CumingsScottish association football player (born 1999)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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