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Girl · English pet form
Hettie
Say it: HET-ee
Meaning
A pet form of Henrietta (from Germanic heim 'home' and ric 'ruler') or of Hester.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Common in the 1800s in Britain and the US.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 7,293 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1885, about 1 in 1,300 girls
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Hetty
Famous bearers
- Hetty Green, American financier
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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