Neta
From the Hebrew *neta*, "seedling": a young plant just pressed into the soil. In Poland it stays rare, carried by fewer than 200 people, foreign enough on a school register to stick in the memory.
Neta Pronunciation
Neta is pronounced NE-tah (/ˈnɛta/).
What Neta means
Where Neta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Neta comes from Hebrew. It rests on the root nun-tet-ayin, which means to plant, and the noun נֶטַע names a young plant pressed into the soil. The short meaning is seedling. In modern Hebrew the same word still does the everyday work of naming a sapling in a nursery row.
The name belongs to Jewish tradition, where a personal name can double as a small claim about growth. Neta has no diminutives and no variants. It stays short and complete on its own.
A child named Neta shares a word the Hebrew Bible uses for orchards and vineyards, where planting means a people taking root in land. The verb form, lintoa, sits close by. That kinship keeps the name tied to soil rather than to abstraction.
On a Polish class register the name reads as foreign and unmistakable. It carries its meaning without translation: roślina, sadzonka. A seedling, named.
How many people are named Neta
1 in 138306 women in Poland is named Neta. 178 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2383 among female names.
Neta's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Neta as a middle name
Neta is a first name for 178 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3381st, between Nerina (6) and Nhu (6).
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#3379 Neri6
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#3380 Nerina6
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#3381 Neta6
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#3382 Nhu6
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#3383 Nia6