Hattye
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hattye has been given to 121 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1915, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Hattye, 1942
1 in 455,000
Hattye over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hattye?
Hattye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1942
- 1 in 455,000
- 6 of 2,731,825 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 225,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1942
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 315,594 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hattye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1942 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 315,594 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hattye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hattyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hattye was born before 1926 — so the typical Hattye is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 45.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 79.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Hattye 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (13)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Hattye
Hattye is not the most common spelling — Mattie is, with 38.1% against Hattye's 0.03%.
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.
Hattye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hattye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hattye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.