Mettie
Last seen for girls in 1948 at #5,243
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,031since 1880
Mettie over time
Rank among girls' names. Mettie has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 |
| 1943 | #2,861 | 11 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #2,731 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 |
| 1932 | #2,365 | 13 |
| 1931 | #2,307 | 13 |
| 1930 | #2,110 | 16 |
| 1929 | #2,587 | 12 |
| 1928 | #1,738 | 23 |
| 1927 | #2,256 | 16 |
| 1926 | #1,997 | 19 |
| 1925 | #2,018 | 19 |
| 1924 | #2,137 | 18 |
| 1923 | #2,091 | 18 |
| 1922 | #1,611 | 27 |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 |
| 1920 | #2,172 | 17 |
| 1919 | #1,801 | 21 |
| 1918 | #1,411 | 30 |
| 1917 | #1,996 | 17 |
| 1916 | #1,949 | 17 |
| 1915 | #1,883 | 17 |
| 1914 | #2,125 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,465 | 16 |
| 1912 | #1,297 | 17 |
| 1911 | #1,545 | 10 |
| 1910 | #1,030 | 18 |
| 1909 | #773 | 27 |
| 1908 | #970 | 17 |
| 1907 | #898 | 18 |
| 1906 | #1,043 | 13 |
| 1905 | #1,093 | 12 |
| 1904 | #1,251 | 9 |
| 1903 | #836 | 17 |
| 1902 | #1,075 | 11 |
| 1901 | #699 | 21 |
| 1900 | #833 | 20 |
| 1899 | #935 | 12 |
| 1898 | #790 | 18 |
| 1897 | #761 | 17 |
| 1896 | #670 | 22 |
| 1895 | #578 | 27 |
| 1894 | #744 | 16 |
| 1893 | #739 | 16 |
| 1892 | #590 | 22 |
| 1891 | #497 | 27 |
| 1890 | #524 | 25 |
| 1889 | #724 | 13 |
| 1888 | #612 | 17 |
| 1887 | #560 | 16 |
| 1886 | #572 | 15 |
| 1885 | #576 | 14 |
| 1884 | #640 | 11 |
| 1883 | #579 | 11 |
| 1882 | #678 | 8 |
| 1881 | #503 | 11 |
| 1880 | #466 | 13 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Mettie was already there! It came in at #466, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mettie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1948
- Biggest jump: 239 spots in 1903 (#1,075 → #836)
- Biggest drop: 415 spots in 1904 (#836 → #1,251)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #466 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1946, 66 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1880–1901
- Highest: 1 in 6,870 girls born in 1891 were named Mettie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 339,582 girls born in 1948 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #466 in 1880, was only 1 in 7,000 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.6% of all girls named Mettie (202) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 129 | #466 (1880) | #591 |
| 1890s | 202 | #497 (1891) | #683 |
| 1900s | 165 | #699 (1901) | #947 |
| 1910s | 174 | #1,030 (1910) | #1,650 |
| 1920s | 180 | #1,611 (1922) | #2,155 |
| 1930s | 114 | #2,110 (1930) | #2,566 |
| 1940s | 67 | #2,572 (1940) | #3,520 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mettie in 1884
Top girls' names in 1884
More about 1884
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129,019 girls got a published name in 1884; 1 in 11,729 of them was named Mettie, which outranked 45.4% of the 1,172 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #614Sula12
- #614Therese12
- #614Theresia12
- #640Mettie11
- #640Adela11
- #640Alvena11
- #640Annabel11
- #686Aileen10
- #686Albertha10
- #686Aletha10
Tied with 45 names at #640; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 488Roxy#536 → #1,024
- ↓ 463Fredericka#561 → #1,024
- ↓ 445Albert#579 → #1,024
- ↓ 409Roseanna#615 → #1,024
- ↓ 373Delpha#651 → #1,024
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.