Hetty

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Hetty: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Hetty: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #831 in 2015, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#831highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#2738
1998	#1979
1999	#1675
2000	#1831
2001	#1728
2002	#1928
2003	#2727
2004	#1836
2005	#2682
2006	#2137
2007	#1573
2008	#1641
2009	#1596
2010	#1429
2011	#1438
2012	#1037
2013	#1048
2014	#1177
2015	#831
2016	#1057
2017	#1296
2018	#1200
2019	#1562
2020	#1267
2021	#1962
2022	#2178
2023	#1863
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1522 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #831 among girls in England and Wales, in 2015 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Hetty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Hetty in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	34	4 of 10	9
2000s	111	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	290	10 of 10	29
2020s	76	5 of 10	15

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 29 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Hetty appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #831 in England and Wales in 2015.

Hetty's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1267	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1200	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1296	26	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#831	45	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1177	29	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1048	34	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1037	34	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1438	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2137	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1979	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #831, first reached in 2015.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 45 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,574position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
45births registered in its largest year, 201525 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Het · #2199, 10y
Hettie · #517, 28y
Hetvi · #3549, 10y
Hezekiah · #829, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hayat · #832, 25y
Sukhmani · #830, 26y
Efan · #833, 27y
Franklyn · #833, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Hayat · #832, 25y
Sukhmani · #830, 26y
Aziz · #829, 30y
Efan · #833, 27y

Hetty was ranked #831 in England and Wales · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Hetty and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Hetty without appearing here.

Hetty moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2682 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #3548.
Pauline Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2682 and #1796 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2137 and #3548.
Vicki Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2727 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1836 and #3197.

Moved ahead of Hetty

Aria Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1928 and #2540 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #2727 and #1472.
Ada Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1928 and #2301 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #2727 and #1628.
Audrey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1522 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2738 and #1666.
Marilyn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #1541.

Moved the opposite way to Hetty

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Hetty

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Hetty went from #1522 to #2574 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #831 in England and Wales in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Hetty

Hetty at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Hetty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hetty appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Hetty at a glance

Hetty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Hetty appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Hetty

Hetty and the names beside it

Hetty moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Hetty

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