Hatty

Girls' name

Home + king, through Harriet

Hatty has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1892. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hatty, 2012

1 in 732,000

Hatty over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hatty: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Harriet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hatty means

Hatty belongs to the name family reached through Hatty → Harriet → Henriette → Henri → Henri → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hatty is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harriet, Henriette, Henri and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 53 girls were recorded with the name Hatty between 1892 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,546 in 1892.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hatty?

Hatty had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,051 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hatty sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hatty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hattys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hatty was born before 1928 — so the typical Hatty is around 97 today.

Median birth year: 1928; About 97 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 9.4%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Hatty rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1928 (7)
Years since peak: 97; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,546; 1892

Spellings of Hatty

Hatty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 48.6% against Hatty's <0.01%.

Betty48.6%1,001,238
Kathy16.2%334,131
Cathy8.3%170,303
Haley7.7%159,511
Patsy5.8%119,448
Hattie5.1%105,197
Patty3.0%62,452
Patti2.2%44,711

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hatty around the world

Where Hatty ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2003–2022
#4,646
in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Hatty by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,546; 1892
Peak year: 1928; 7 that year
First recorded: 1892
Last recorded: 2012
All-time count: 53
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hatty

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Hatti Hatley Hatice Hatten Hattye Jetty Hatsuyo Hatsumi Hatsuye Hatsue Ketty Hatton Petty Netty Hather Hateya Hathaway Matty Scotty Pretty Hattiemae Hatsuko Hatina Katty

Sibling names for Hatty

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Edward Paul Charline Ardis Germaine Darline Marvel Richard

For a brother

Frances Jules Bud Rolland Normand Laverne Jewel Carrol

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