# Nettie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nettie/  
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 | 49,531 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 88 / 49,443 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 21, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 9,569 |
| 2012 | 8 | 13,112 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,459 |
| 2014 | 15 | 7,960 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,592 |
| 2016 | 19 | 6,605 |
| 2017 | 13 | 8,651 |
| 2018 | 13 | 8,478 |
| 2019 | 19 | 6,357 |
| 2020 | 12 | 8,799 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,898 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,928 |
| 2023 | 19 | 6,341 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,855 |
| 2025 | 22 | 5,663 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 5 | 1,045 |
| 1897 | 5 | 1,180 |
| 1913 | 6 | 2,704 |
| 1917 | 8 | 3,126 |
| 1918 | 5 | 4,611 |
| 1919 | 5 | 4,603 |
| 1920 | 9 | 3,134 |
| 1922 | 6 | 4,171 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,706 |
| 1926 | 9 | 3,064 |
| 1927 | 9 | 3,080 |
| 1929 | 6 | 3,832 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,383 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,825 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Nettie

- Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (1861–1912)
- Nettie Honeyball, English footballer

## 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.