Nettie
Nettie was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,662 among girls’ names; 49,531 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,120 Americans named Nettie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 64 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nettie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nettie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nettie is “a diminutive of the female given names Annette and Jeannette.”
Suffixed with -ie, compare Neddie and Nellie, respectively from Edward and Eleanor.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nettie?
#5,662 among girls’ names, 2025
Nettie rose from #11,587 in 2015 to #5,662 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 13.7 per million.
1,172 babies in 1918, the peak
Nettie peaked in 1918, when 1,172 babies were given it (1,167 girls, #175 among girls’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,662 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,851 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,336 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,925 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,893 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,794 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,353 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,473 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,647 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,602 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,587 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,957 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,454 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,105 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,565 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,792 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,763 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,365 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,396 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,732 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,286 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,682 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,518 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,401 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,620 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,397 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,747 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,601 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,472 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,285 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,308 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,899 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,064 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,641 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,014 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,996 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,749 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,446 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,382 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,180 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,892 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,959 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,931 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,553 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,686 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,562 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,114 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,412 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,841 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,685 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,093 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,158 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,712 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,026 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,927 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,702 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,768 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,488 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 71 | #1,289 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 78 | #1,223 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 90 | #1,166 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 110 | #1,021 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 118 | #991 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 147 | #887 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 141 | #876 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 145 | #850 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 182 | #734 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 181 | #742 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 214 | #655 | 0.11 |
| 1955 | 207 | #649 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 242 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 218 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1952 | 259 | #526 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 245 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1950 | 292 | #474 | 0.17 |
| 1949 | 292 | #471 | 0.17 |
| 1948 | 318 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1947 | 332 | #447 | 0.19 |
| 1946 | 373 | #392 | 0.24 |
| 1945 | 313 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1944 | 370 | #362 | 0.28 |
| 1943 | 434 | #342 | 0.31 |
| 1942 | 437 | #333 | 0.32 |
| 1941 | 433 | #316 | 0.36 |
| 1940 | 427 | #304 | 0.37 |
| 1939 | 460 | #291 | 0.42 |
| 1938 | 490 | #283 | 0.44 |
| 1937 | 521 | #275 | 0.49 |
| 1936 | 475 | #277 | 0.46 |
| 1935 | 585 | #259 | 0.56 |
| 1934 | 545 | #265 | 0.52 |
| 1933 | 543 | #262 | 0.54 |
| 1932 | 597 | #257 | 0.56 |
| 1931 | 588 | #249 | 0.55 |
| 1930 | 657 | #242 | 0.58 |
| 1929 | 669 | #237 | 0.60 |
| 1928 | 711 | #233 | 0.62 |
| 1927 | 772 | #233 | 0.65 |
| 1926 | 839 | #219 | 0.71 |
| 1925 | 897 | #214 | 0.74 |
| 1924 | 942 | #208 | 0.75 |
| 1923 | 998 | #202 | 0.83 |
| 1922 | 989 | #203 | 0.82 |
| 1921 | 1,034 | #198 | 0.84 |
| 1920 | 1,141 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1919 | 1,109 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1918 | 1,167 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1917 | 1,106 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 1916 | 1,125 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1915 | 1,106 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1914 | 936 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1913 | 777 | #152 | 1.2 |
| 1912 | 762 | #143 | 1.4 |
| 1911 | 617 | #136 | 1.5 |
| 1910 | 627 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 1909 | 549 | #128 | 1.6 |
| 1908 | 543 | #128 | 1.6 |
| 1907 | 542 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 1906 | 537 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1905 | 573 | #111 | 2.0 |
| 1904 | 547 | #111 | 2.0 |
| 1903 | 547 | #105 | 2.1 |
| 1902 | 569 | #104 | 2.2 |
| 1901 | 562 | #93 | 2.3 |
| 1900 | 711 | #94 | 2.4 |
| 1899 | 611 | #89 | 2.6 |
| 1898 | 678 | #87 | 2.6 |
| 1897 | 614 | #90 | 2.6 |
| 1896 | 628 | #87 | 2.6 |
| 1895 | 677 | #82 | 2.9 |
| 1894 | 630 | #82 | 2.8 |
| 1893 | 668 | #75 | 3.1 |
| 1892 | 705 | #73 | 3.3 |
| 1891 | 620 | #71 | 3.3 |
| 1890 | 707 | #67 | 3.7 |
| 1889 | 622 | #70 | 3.5 |
| 1888 | 692 | #67 | 3.9 |
| 1887 | 595 | #65 | 4.1 |
| 1886 | 591 | #65 | 4.1 |
| 1885 | 536 | #66 | 4.0 |
| 1884 | 522 | #67 | 4.0 |
| 1883 | 494 | #64 | 4.4 |
| 1882 | 439 | #68 | 4.1 |
| 1881 | 419 | #62 | 4.6 |
| 1880 | 403 | #65 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nettie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nettie has been given almost only to girls: 88 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nettie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nettie, and how old are they?
7,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 14% of the 49,531 Americans ever recorded as Nettie. The median Nettie alive today is 76 years old; half are between 64 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 7,566 people named Nettie (7,541 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,430 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,070 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 697 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 404 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 225 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 207 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Nettie born?
The states with the most babies named Nettie are Alabama, Texas and Georgia, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 2,403 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 2,365 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 2,334 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 2,207 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 1,907 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 1,621 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| South Carolina | 1,475 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Louisiana | 1,380 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Kentucky | 1,283 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 1,265 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Nettie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nettie is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Nettie 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 50,956 babies since 1880, Nettie is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 36 babies (61%), again the most given.
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 Nettie
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 Nettie and names like it
- Compare Nettie and NettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sNettie peaked in 1918.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nettie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Nettie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nettie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.