Hattie
#334 in the US in 2025
Hattie in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been rising — up 64% as a share of girls' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Hattie in New Zealand
Hattie never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | #27 | 769 |
| 1890 | #38 | 1,363 |
| 1900 | #50 | 1,553 |
| 1910 | #73 | 1,314 |
| 1920 | #132 | 1,870 |
| 1930 | #160 | 1,284 |
| 1940 | #198 | 893 |
| 1950 | #306 | 643 |
| 1960 | #584 | 287 |
| 1970 | #1,191 | 96 |
| 1980 | #1,542 | 76 |
| 1990 | #2,201 | 58 |
| 2000 | #1,518 | 120 |
| 2010 | #1,438 | 158 |
| 2020 | #421 | 725 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Hattie most often since 1880. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6,843 |
| Georgia | 6,330 |
| South Carolina | 6,218 |
| Mississippi | 5,831 |
| Alabama | 5,453 |
| Texas | 4,650 |
| Tennessee | 3,374 |
| Virginia | 3,224 |
| Louisiana | 2,417 |
| Kentucky | 2,097 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026