Hettie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HET-ee
- Origin
- Germanic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,051 for girls
Hettie is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “home ruler”. In 2025 it ranked 1,051st for girls in the UK (34 babies).
What does Hettie mean?
Germanic: pet form of Henrietta, sometimes of Hester
“home ruler”
Is Hettie a girl's or a boy's name?
Hettie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hettie in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,051st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 34 about 1 in 8,200 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 34 girls in the UK were named Hettie, making it the 1,051st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 691st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 83 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Hettie than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Hettie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 53 girls in the UK were given Hettie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #701, up from #1,051 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 997th in England and Wales.
Hettie in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #1,051 |
| 2024 | 36 | #1,020 |
| 2023 | 36 | #1,030 |
| 2022 | 62 | #661 |
| 2021 | 56 | #734 |
| 2020 | 58 | #691 |
| 2019 | 59 | #718 |
| 2018 | 69 | #644 |
| 2017 | 74 | #620 |
| 2016 | 68 | #672 |
| 2015 | 83 | #566 |
| 2014 | 53 | #792 |
| 2013 | 66 | #672 |
| 2012 | 44 | #919 |
| 2011 | 28 | #1,238 |
| 2010 | 31 | #1,136 |
| 2009 | 25 | #1,285 |
| 2008 | 21 | #1,443 |
| 2007 | 16 | #1,694 |
| 2006 | 13 | #1,860 |
| 2005 | 15 | #1,608 |
| 2004 | 10 | #2,064 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 12 | #1,649 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 8 | #2,097 |
| 1999 | 6 | #2,559 |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
Names like Hettie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lottie, Hattie, Ottilie, Elsie, Millie, Nellie, Winnie, Annie, Effie, Rosie, Minnie, Harriet
Other spellings of Hettie
Hetty, Heti, Hetti
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles, Alice
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hettie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hettie, updated 20 October 2026.