# Hettie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hettie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,294 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 7,294 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,003, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 9,811 |
| 1979 | 7 | 8,341 |
| 1980 | 8 | 7,648 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,499 |
| 1982 | 9 | 7,083 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,849 |
| 1988 | 6 | 10,834 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,951 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,334 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,576 |
| 1999 | 5 | 15,269 |
| 2001 | 6 | 14,157 |
| 2002 | 6 | 14,242 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,204 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,457 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 1,168 |
| 2012 | 43 | 874 |
| 2013 | 65 | 626 |
| 2014 | 53 | 740 |
| 2015 | 83 | 517 |
| 2016 | 68 | 622 |
| 2017 | 73 | 582 |
| 2018 | 69 | 596 |
| 2019 | 58 | 670 |
| 2020 | 58 | 643 |
| 2021 | 55 | 688 |
| 2022 | 62 | 613 |
| 2023 | 35 | 981 |
| 2024 | 36 | 980 |
| 2025 | 34 | 997 |

## People named Hettie

- Hettie Jones, American writer (1934–2024)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.