Harriette

Where Harriette comes from

The dictionaries list Harriette as a given name — a female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Harriet — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1786
    Harriette Wilson born
    British writer and courtesan
  2. 1875
    Harriette Chick born
    British protein scientist and nutritionist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls — 19 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1882
    Peak, #341
    27 babies named Harriette — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1970
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,246.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Harriet.
Namesakes
  • Harriette Chick · British protein scientist and nutritionist, 1875–1977
  • Harriette Wilson · British writer and courtesan, 1786–1845
  • Harriette L. Chandler · politician in Massachusetts, US, born 1937
  • Harriette Moore · American activist, 1902–1952
  • Harriette Cole · American journalist, born 1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.