Girl · Germanic, through English pet forms
Hattie
Say it: HAT-ee
Meaning
Pet form of Harriet.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Very common in late 19th-century America, revived recently.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 101,680 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1887, about 1 in 129 girls
- 717 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hatty
Famous bearers
- Hattie McDaniel, actress, first Black Academy Award winner
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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