Nettie
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Nettie
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 is also given to boys.
Pronounced NET-ee.
As of October 2026, Nettie ranked #5663 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #62 in 1881.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | — | 0 |
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Nettie on lists
Famous Netties
- Nettie Maria StevensGirl
American geneticist, first to describe chromosomal basis of sex
- Nettie Williams McBirney aka "Aunt ChickGirl
" American inventor and cooking writer
- Janet Gertrude "Nettie" PalmerGirl
Australian poet and critic
- Nancy "Nettie" Fowler McCormickGirl
American philanthropist
- Nettie StanleyGirl
American reality TV personality of "Gypsy Sisters"
Nettie in pop culture
- Nettie AshfordGirl
"aged half,past six," author of the romance of Mrs Orange and Mrs Alicumpane, in Dickens's short story "A Holiday Romance" (1868)
- Nettie StingerGirl
character from TV series "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"
- NettieGirl
character in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"
- Nettie FowlerGirl
character in the musical "Carousel"
- NettieGirl
English regional slang word for toilet
- NettieGirl
character in Christina Baker Klein's "The Orphan Train"
- "Nettie MooreGirl
" song by Bob Dylan
- "Nettie"Girl
song by 90s gothic metal band Type O Negative