Hettie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Hettie

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,294 babies named Hettie between 1880 and 2019, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hettie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 170 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hettie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,335 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Hettie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 531 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Hettie in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hettie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,294 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.