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How popular is the name Hetty?
Births per year, rank history and how many Hetties are alive today.
Hetty (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Hettie in England and Wales, ranked 2788th in 2025 and given to 9 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2015, when 45 babies were given the name, the 831st most popular that year. It has declined since 2015; the 2025 figure is roughly 20% of its peak.
Across all spellings of the name, the Hettie you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Hetties born in England and Wales are between 7 and 16, and there are at least 1,500 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Hettie - on average, only one in every 210 such rooms contains a Hettie.
How many babies are named Hetty each year?
Includes all spellings: Hetty, Hettie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Hetty spelling rank?
Where does the Hettie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Hetty most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Hettie, peaked in 2015, when 128 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Hetty spelling itself peaked in 2015, with 45 babies.
How many people are called Hetty?
At least 1,500 people named Hetty in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Hetty?
Most living Hetties are between 7 and 16; the most common age is about 10.
Is Hetty becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2015 peak.