Hettie
Hettie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 172nd, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916170 births
- Best rank
- #172in 1884
- Since 1880
- 7,294people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,294 girls have been named Hettie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 170 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 170 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1914, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hettie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 895 | |
| 1890s | 1,200 | |
| 1900s | 1,037 | |
| 1910s | 1,335 | |
| 1920s | 1,228 | |
| 1930s | 601 | |
| 1940s | 449 | |
| 1950s | 262 | |
| 1960s | 140 | |
| 1970s | 69 | |
| 1980s | 34 | |
| 1990s | 21 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 11 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Hettie was the 495th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Hettie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Effiepeak 1919
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Rillapeak 1914
- Bellpeak 1900
- Augustapeak 1915
- Nanniepeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.