Nettie

Where Nettie comes from

Suffixed with -ie, compare Neddie and Nellie, respectively from Edward and Eleanor.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nettie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1861
    Nettie Stevens born
    American geneticist
  2. 1879
    Nettie Honeyball born
    English footballer
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #65 among girls — 403 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #62
    419 babies named Nettie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1955
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #646.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Annette and Jeannette.
Namesakes
  • Nettie Stevens · American geneticist, 1861–1912
  • Nettie Honeyball · English footballer, 1879–1910
  • Nettie Nielsen · badminton player, born 1964
  • Nettie Palmer · Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day, 1885–1964
  • Nettie Craig Asberry · American activist, 1865–1968

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.