Ettie

What Ettie means

Diminutive of Esther, meaning “star”

diminutive of the female given name Esther || Has been connected to Old Persian 𐎠𐎿𐎫𐎼 (a-s-t-r /⁠star-⁠/, “star”) (whence Middle Persian 𐭮𐭲𐭫 (stl /⁠star⁠/, “star”), 𐭮𐭲𐭠𐭫𐭪 (stʾlk /⁠stārag⁠/, “star”), Persian ستاره (sitāra / setâre, “star”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (if so, a dis

Source: Wiktionary, “Ettie” (revision 91432223) and “Esther” (revision 93542378), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Ettie?

US: New in the last 10 years. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1279 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 25 girls got the name (#317 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 146,115 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,849 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Ettie is #8860 in the US and #318 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ettie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Edie91 US · 322 E&W
• Ottie0 US · 21 E&W
• Eddie7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ettie

Girls

• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Kehlani#148Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #148 vs #894 in 2025
• Rose#114Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1917, with 9,783 babies; 2,386 in 2025
• Rosie#283Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #775 in 2015, #283 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*

For a brother

• Calvin#132“bald”^*
• Harvey#251“iron + blazing”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Lorenzo#117Editor’s note Up from #216 in 2015 to #117 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 560 US boys in the 2025 records
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ettie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.