Ettie

Where Ettie comes from

The dictionaries list Ettie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Esther — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1877
    Ettie Rout born
    New Zealand writer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #317 among girls with 25 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1914
    Ettie Steinberg born
    h Irish persons killed in the Holocaust
  4. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,737.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Esther.
Namesakes
  • Ettie Rout · New Zealand writer, 1877–1936
  • Ettie Steinberg · h Irish persons killed in the Holocaust, 1914–1942

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.