Nettie

English, diminutive of names ending in -ette or -etta, or variation of Neta, Hebrew

"plant"

Nettie Origin and Meaning

The name Nettie is a girl's name of English origin meaning "plant".

You may never have known a Nettie personally, but there well might be one hidden in your family history, considering that she was a Top 100 name until 1901 and stayed on the Social Security list until 1962.

Like cousins Hattie and Lottie, Nettie is a charming and nostalgic knitting and crocheting great-grandma name that just might work as a relaxed choice for a contemporary little girl, perhaps to honor an ancestral Annette or Henrietta.

Nettie Rank in US Top 1000

# 983 in the US

Popularity of the name Nettie

• 1870 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Nettie

• Nettie Maria Stevens American geneticist, first to describe chromosomal basis of sex
• Nettie Williams McBirney aka "Aunt Chick " American inventor and cooking writer
• Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer Australian poet and critic
• Nancy "Nettie" Fowler McCormick American philanthropist
• Nettie Stanley American reality TV personality of "Gypsy Sisters"

The name Nettie in Pop Culture

• Nettie Ashford "aged half,past six," author of the romance of Mrs Orange and Mrs Alicumpane, in Dickens's short story "A Holiday Romance" (1868)
• Nettie Stinger character from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
• Nettie character in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
• Nettie Fowler character in the musical "Carousel"
• Nettie English regional slang word for toilet
• Nettie character in Christina Baker Klein's "The Orphan Train"
• "Nettie Moore " song by Bob Dylan
• "Nettie" song by 90s gothic metal band Type O Negative