Hattie
Hattie is ranked 382nd among girls in 2024 (819 births). Its best rank was 27th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #382up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8190.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,999 births
- Best rank
- #27in 1880
- Since 1880
- 104,269people given the name
The story in the numbers
104,269 girls have been named Hattie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,999 births — 0.17% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 590 → 382).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 16%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 35 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hattie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10,199 | |
| 1890s | 12,909 | |
| 1900s | 11,717 | |
| 1910s | 16,418 | |
| 1920s | 16,368 | |
| 1930s | 10,229 | |
| 1940s | 7,845 | |
| 1950s | 4,450 | |
| 1960s | 1,783 | |
| 1970s | 778 | |
| 1980s | 645 | |
| 1990s | 792 | |
| 2000s | 1,272 | |
| 2010s | 5,072 | |
| 2020s | 3,792 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Hattie was the 121st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Hattie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lulapeak 1921
- Ettapeak 1920
- Adapeak 1918
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Hettiepeak 1916
- Rillapeak 1914
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.