How rare is the name Nettie?

7,566 people in the United States have the first name Nettie, about 1 in 39,920. It ranks #2,969 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

NETTIE

#2,969

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,566
About
1 in 39,920
This common or more
81.3%
Who bears it

Of the 7,566 people named Nettie, 57.4% reported their origin as White, 35.6% as Black and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Nettie peaked in 1918, when 1,172 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
1,172
In 2025*
22 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 49,531 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Nettie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #97. The largest share of babies named Nettie, 44.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#975,318
1890s#1126,543
1900s#1565,680
1910s#2839,356
1920s#3849,036
1930s#4905,471
1940s#7183,729
1950s#1,1092,185
1960s#1,899908
1970s#3,321418
1980s#4,893295
1990s#7,835210
2000s#13,110138
2010s#13,735136
2020s#11,034108
Before 190125.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2744.4%
Silent Generation 1928–4518.7%
Baby boom 1946–648.3%
Generation X 1965–801.5%
Millennials 1981–960.8%
Generation Z 1997–120.5%
2013 and later0.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Nettie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Nettie has been most common in Alabama (4.5×), Mississippi (4.4×), and South Carolina (3.5×), and least common in Washington (0.09×).

28,508 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Nettie

1 other first name also has 7,566 people.

#2,969 Harlow · 7,566

Either side of Nettie

#2,967 Stacia · 7,571#2,969 Harlow · 7,566#2,971 Patricio · 7,562#2,972 Binh · 7,556

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Nettie, most common first.

#50,309 Nette · 120

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