Nettie
English, diminutive of names ending in -ette or -etta
"grace"Nettie Origin and Meaning
The name Nettie is a girl's name of English origin.
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.
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 Popularity
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Famous People Named Nettie
- Nettie Maria StevensAmerican geneticist, first to describe chromosomal basis of sex
- Nettie Williams McBirney aka "Aunt Chick" American inventor and cooking writer
- Janet Gertrude "Nettie" PalmerAustralian poet and critic
- Nancy "Nettie" Fowler McCormickAmerican philanthropist
- Nettie StanleyAmerican reality TV personality of "Gypsy Sisters"
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 Stingercharacter from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
- Nettiecharacter in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
- Nettie Fowlercharacter in the musical "Carousel"
- NettieEnglish regional slang word for toilet
- Nettiecharacter in Christina Baker Klein's "The Orphan Train"
- "Nettie Moore" song by Bob Dylan
- "Nettie"song by 90s gothic metal band Type O Negative