Fewer than five US girls were named Hettie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #172, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 170, in 1916. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,534 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hettie in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 69 babies. In all, 7,294 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,335 babies named Hettie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11 US girls were named Hettie; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 6.
Rarer spellings such as Hetty and Hettye are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.