# Hetty (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hetty/  
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 | 720 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 720 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 520, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 8 | 4,010 |
| 1949 | 5 | 5,557 |
| 1950 | 11 | 3,302 |
| 1951 | 9 | 3,819 |
| 1953 | 9 | 4,055 |
| 1954 | 6 | 5,377 |
| 1955 | 5 | 6,189 |
| 1957 | 6 | 5,666 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,822 |
| 1971 | 7 | 6,858 |
| 1977 | 5 | 10,168 |
| 1981 | 5 | 10,976 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,340 |
| 1992 | 5 | 14,056 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,845 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 1,438 |
| 2012 | 34 | 1,037 |
| 2013 | 34 | 1,048 |
| 2014 | 29 | 1,177 |
| 2015 | 45 | 831 |
| 2016 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2017 | 26 | 1,296 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,200 |
| 2019 | 19 | 1,562 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 12 | 2,178 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,863 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## People named Hetty

- Hetty Green, American financier (1834–1916)
- Hetty van de Wouw, Dutch cyclist
- Hetty Goldman, American archaeologist (1881–1972)
- Hetty Pettigrew, Art model
- Hetty Blok, Dutch cabaret artist, singer, and actress (1920–2012)
- Henrietta Treffz, Austrian mezzo-soprano

## 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.