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Yetta

American  
[yet-uh] / ˈjɛt ə /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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He and his wife, Yetta, had four children and lived in a brick house in Brooklyn.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2022

Her Jewish great-grandparents, Abraham Simon and Rhoda Yetta Freeman and their eight children, including Lill's grandmother Florrie, came to Newry in about 1890 from Kaunas in Lithuania, part of the then Russia.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2021

Mondschein, whose father, Max, and mother, Yetta, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, recalled how “to be in that place at that time and what it meant for Israel was thrilling.”

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2015

Ydanis Rodriguez, a Democratic City Councilmember from northern Manhattan, became one of those arrested, said Yetta Kurland, an attorney with the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, in an e-mailed news release.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 16, 2011

He spoke with an accent, and his family connections consisted, principally, of being the son of Solomon and Yetta Bickel of Bucharest, Romania, by way, most recently, of Brooklyn.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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