Lottie

Where Lottie comes from

Diminutive + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lottie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1871
    Lottie Dod born
    English tennis player
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #88 among girls — 245 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1886
    Peak, #75
    450 babies named Lottie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1893
    Lottie Pickford born
    actress
  5. 1946
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #534.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.
Namesakes
  • Lottie Dod · English tennis player, 1871–1960
  • Lottie Pickford · actress, 1893–1936
  • Lottie Lyell · Australian film director, 1890–1925
  • Lottie Briscoe · American actress, 1883–1950
  • Lottie Williams · American actress, 1874–1962

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.