Grettell
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Grettell is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Grettell mean?
Germanic: spelling of Gretel
A diminutive of the female given name Margarete, from German.
Meaning borrowed from Gretel. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Grettell a girl's or a boy's name?
Grettell is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Grettell in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Grettell, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Grettell in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 94 girls in the US were given Grettell or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,772, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Grettell in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
Names like Grettell
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gracelynn, Isla, Harlow, Emma, Miller, Millie, Tilly, Emery, Harper, Oakley, Elodie, Charlie
Other spellings of Grettell
Names related to Grettell
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles, Alice, Myles, Charles
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Grettell: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/grettell, updated 20 October 2026.