Hettie
Hettie was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 7,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hettie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hettie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hettie is “a variant spelling of Hetty, diminutive of the female given names Henrietta, Esther and Hester.”
/ˈhɛti/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hettie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,452, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
170 babies in 1916, the peak
Hettie peaked in 1916, when 170 girls were given it, #495 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #14,452 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,199 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,236 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,260 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,845 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 9 | #7,081 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,497 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,339 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,267 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,489 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,377 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,914 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,677 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,137 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,968 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,618 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,292 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,872 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,478 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,616 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,656 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,526 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 41 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,217 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 58 | #1,028 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 66 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,001 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 47 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 53 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 67 | #821 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 67 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 68 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 50 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 68 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 69 | #824 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 65 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 89 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1928 | 97 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 115 | #675 | 0.10 |
| 1926 | 114 | #684 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 132 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 109 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 133 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1922 | 152 | #582 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 149 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 138 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1919 | 145 | #577 | 0.13 |
| 1918 | 164 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 146 | #559 | 0.14 |
| 1916 | 170 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 153 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1914 | 138 | #466 | 0.18 |
| 1913 | 112 | #479 | 0.18 |
| 1912 | 106 | #462 | 0.19 |
| 1911 | 94 | #419 | 0.22 |
| 1910 | 107 | #379 | 0.27 |
| 1909 | 89 | #389 | 0.26 |
| 1908 | 90 | #381 | 0.27 |
| 1907 | 96 | #360 | 0.30 |
| 1906 | 88 | #356 | 0.30 |
| 1905 | 90 | #353 | 0.31 |
| 1904 | 113 | #304 | 0.41 |
| 1903 | 107 | #304 | 0.41 |
| 1902 | 115 | #293 | 0.44 |
| 1901 | 117 | #275 | 0.49 |
| 1900 | 132 | #284 | 0.44 |
| 1899 | 117 | #264 | 0.50 |
| 1898 | 130 | #264 | 0.50 |
| 1897 | 118 | #262 | 0.50 |
| 1896 | 131 | #244 | 0.55 |
| 1895 | 124 | #254 | 0.53 |
| 1894 | 122 | #244 | 0.55 |
| 1893 | 133 | #227 | 0.62 |
| 1892 | 123 | #237 | 0.58 |
| 1891 | 108 | #232 | 0.58 |
| 1890 | 94 | #260 | 0.49 |
| 1889 | 109 | #222 | 0.61 |
| 1888 | 120 | #204 | 0.67 |
| 1887 | 83 | #230 | 0.57 |
| 1886 | 91 | #208 | 0.63 |
| 1885 | 106 | #180 | 0.80 |
| 1884 | 105 | #172 | 0.81 |
| 1883 | 75 | #199 | 0.67 |
| 1882 | 73 | #192 | 0.68 |
| 1881 | 64 | #191 | 0.70 |
| 1880 | 69 | #181 | 0.76 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hettie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hettie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hettie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hettie, and how old are they?
An estimated 862 Americans named Hettie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 63 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,047 people named Hettie (1,043 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hettie born?
The states with the most babies named Hettie are North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 531 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Tennessee | 273 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Kentucky | 264 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Mississippi | 222 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 213 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Alabama | 212 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 164 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 137 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 137 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arkansas | 117 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Hettie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hettie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hettie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,014 babies since 1880, Hettie is the most given (91% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hettie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hettie and names like it
- Compare Hettie and HettyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHettie peaked in 1916.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hettie since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Hettie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hettie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.