Pretty

Girls' name

Form of Preeti

Pretty has been given to 103 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 2023, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Pretty, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pretty: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Preeti

Sanskrit

What Pretty means

Pretty is a form of Preeti.

Origin, language, and formation

Pretty is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Pretty comes through Sanskrit प्रीति.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Preeti.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 103 girls were recorded with the name Pretty between 1982 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,108 in 1982.

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 Pretty?

Pretty 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 Pretty 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 Pretty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Prettys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pretty was born before 2014 — so the typical Pretty is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 59.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 89.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 103; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 59.2% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Pretty 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 2023 (10)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,108; 1982

Spellings of Pretty

Pretty is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 92.5% against Pretty's <0.01%.

Betty92.5%1,001,238
Patty5.8%62,452
Letty0.43%4,615
Gretta0.38%4,139
Brett0.31%3,404
Retta0.31%3,399
Aretta0.11%1,142
Etty0.07%767

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.

Pretty around the world

Where Pretty 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
2009–2009
#4,564
in 2009
France
1993–2025
#6,464
in 2025
South Australia
2012–2012
#871
in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pretty 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: #10,108; 1982
Peak year: 2023; 10 that year
First recorded: 1982
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 103
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Pretty

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

Preesha Preslyn Presli Prerna Presly Preeya Preslynn Prestyn Prescott Preslea Preslei Preet Prezley Prerana Scotty Preeti Preshus Preethi Prema Presha Preston Preksha Jetty Prestina

Sibling names for Pretty

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

Isha Oaklee Jenesis Kamari Ellianna Maddie Salem Sariyah

For a brother

Gian Rishi Gray Koen Yael Anakin Mikael Eleazar

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