Hetty

Where Hetty comes from

Hetty 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. 1834
    Hetty Green born
    American financier
  2. 1882
    Debut at its peak, #634
    #634 among girls with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1998
    Hetty van de Wouw born
    Dutch cyclist
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Hetty Green · American financier, 1834–1916
  • Hetty van de Wouw · Dutch cyclist, born 1998
  • Hetty Goldman · American archaeologist, 1881–1972
  • Hetty Koes Endang · Indonesian singer, born 1957
  • Hetty Blok · Dutch cabaret artist, singer, and actress, 1920–2012

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.