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Netty

Girls' name

Form of Nettie

Netty has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1920, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Netty, 2024

1 in 669,000

Netty over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Netty: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Nettie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Netty means

Netty is a form of Nettie.

Origin, language, and formation

Netty is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nettie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 girls were recorded with the name Netty between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1920; its best national rank was #2,996 in 1926.

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 Netty?

Netty had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Netty 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Netty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nettys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Netty was born before 1926 — so the typical Netty is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
44.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 44.3% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Netty 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 1920 (11)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,996
1926

Spellings of Netty

Netty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 75.5% against Netty's 0.01%.

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.

Netty around the world

Where Netty 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
    1946–2021
    #5,517
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Netty 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
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Best rank ever
#2,996
1926
Peak year
1920
11 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Netty

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

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Sibling names for Netty

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

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