Nattie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Natalie

Nattie has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1927, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nattie, 1958

1 in 827,000

Nattie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nattie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Natalie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nattie means

Nattie is a diminutive of Natalie.

Origin, language, and formation

Nattie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Natalie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 116 girls were recorded with the name Nattie between 1886 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,229 in 1886.

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.

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How common is Nattie?

Nattie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1958: 1 in 827,000; 5 of 4,133,550 births
Among girls only: 1 in 402,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1958: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 573,033 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Nattie 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 1958 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 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nattie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Natties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nattie was born before 1925 — so the typical Nattie is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 15; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Nattie 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 1927 (10)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,229; 1886

Spellings of Nattie

Nattie is not the most common spelling — Natalie is, with 32.4% against Nattie's <0.01%.

Natalie32.4%379,062
Katie20.7%241,285
Mattie11.4%133,079
Hattie9.0%105,197
Nettie4.2%49,443
Lottie4.1%48,352
Patti3.8%44,711
Bettie3.3%38,395

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.

Nattie around the world

Where Nattie 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.

France
1985–2008
#4,221
in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Nattie 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: #1,229; 1886
Peak year: 1927; 10 that year
First recorded: 1886
Last recorded: 1958
All-time count: 116
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Nattie

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

Nation Natsha Natash Keltie Nataki Natiya Natane Naturi Natara Natsumi Natasa Natina Nature Nataya Natily Nataja Nattaly Natelie Natika Natile Natacia Natalija Nathalya Natajah

Sibling names for Nattie

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

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva Edward George Paul

For a brother

Frances Jewel Raymon Merlin Domenick Jules Bud Hosea

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