Meaning and history
Gretchen is a German diminutive of Margarete.
20062006: 355 births, rank #777
2007: 316 births, rank #883
2008: 283 births, rank #953
2009: 265 births, rank #998
2010: 226 births, rank #1,101
20112011: 234 births, rank #1,054
2012: 203 births, rank #1,206
2013: 203 births, rank #1,184
2014: 191 births, rank #1,261
2015: 162 births, rank #1,425
20162016: 170 births, rank #1,380
2017: 120 births, rank #1,752
2018: 96 births, rank #2,026
2019: 71 births, rank #2,482
2020: 65 births, rank #2,597
20212021: 61 births, rank #2,784
2022: 52 births, rank #3,123
2023: 65 births, rank #2,674
2024: 45 births, rank #3,459
20252025: 33 births, rank #4,265
Gretchen moved from #883 to #954 for girls between 2007 and 2008. Its highest annual birth count came in 1973, with 1,351 births.