Nettie
Nettie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 62nd, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,167 births
- Best rank
- #62in 1881
- Since 1880
- 49,419people given the name
The story in the numbers
49,419 girls have been named Nettie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,167 births — 0.10% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 17 births in 2024, against 1,167 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1918, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Nettie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5,313 | |
| 1890s | 6,538 | |
| 1900s | 5,680 | |
| 1910s | 9,332 | |
| 1920s | 8,992 | |
| 1930s | 5,461 | |
| 1940s | 3,729 | |
| 1950s | 2,185 | |
| 1960s | 908 | |
| 1970s | 418 | |
| 1980s | 295 | |
| 1990s | 210 | |
| 2000s | 137 | |
| 2010s | 136 | |
| 2020s | 85 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Nettie was the 175th 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 Nettie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lulapeak 1921
- Idapeak 1918
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Mittiepeak 1920
- Ettapeak 1920
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
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.