Hettie

Where Hettie comes from

Hettie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #180 among girls — 69 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #170
    105 babies named Hettie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1892
    Hettie Dyhrenfurth born
    German-Swiss mountaineer
  4. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #973.
  5. 1934
    Hettie Jones born
    American writer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hettie Jones · American writer, 1934–2024
  • Hettie Dyhrenfurth · German-Swiss mountaineer, 1892–1972
  • Hettie MacDonald · British director, born 1962
  • Hettie Gray Baker · American film editor, 1880–1957
  • Hettie Anderson · American art model, 1873–1938

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.