Given name & surname · also German
Uta
“fortunate maid of battle”·“poem”
Uta is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “fortunate maid of battle” and “poem”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original GermanUte
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “fortunate maid of battle” and “poem”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with German and Japanese naming traditions.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 0 boys · 26 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 6 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 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 497 as a first name in 2020; 118 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Uta’s family of names
In German usage, Uta has a related form in Ute. Uta has a related form in Ute. Uta has a related form in Utako.
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 Uta
- Uta AbeJapanese judokaborn 2000
- Uta HagenGerman-born American actress and drama teacher (1919–2004)
- Uta FrithGerman developmental psychologistborn 1941
- Uta Ranke-HeinemannGerman Catholic theologian and author; World's first woman to hold a chair in Catholic theology (1927-2021)
- Uta RohländerGerman sprinterborn 1969
- Uta IbrahimiAlbanian alpinist from Kosovoborn 1983
- Uta von BallenstedtGerman noblewoman1000–1046
- Uta PippigGerman long-distance runnerborn 1965
- Uta SchmuckEast German swimmerborn 1949
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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