Mettie
Mettie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 485th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191830 births
- Best rank
- #485in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,031people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,031 girls have been named Mettie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1911, and the 1890s alone account for 20%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1918, its biggest year
Mettie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Mettie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Liddiepeak 1916
- Ettiepeak 1891
- Rillapeak 1914
- Hettiepeak 1916
- Metapeak 1892
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Augustapeak 1915
- Huldapeak 1895
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.