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Yetta

American  
[yet-uh] / ˈyɛt ə /

noun

  1. a female given name.


Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

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

Yetta Cushman, who immigrated around 1890, never became a U.S. citizen and died before Social Security existed.

From Washington Post

Yetta Cohn, with whom the star was said to have had an affair — the pair are mentioned in Arthur Laurents’s memoir, “Original Story By” — pops up at regular intervals.

From New York Times

Among his earliest hoaxes was a political campaign for one “Yetta Bronstein,” a fictitious Jewish homemaker from the Bronx who sought the presidency in 1964 and 1968.

From Washington Post