Rettie
Last seen for girls in 1920 at #3,598
- Peak · girls
- 1882 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 163since 1881
Rettie over time
Rank among girls' names. Rettie has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 |
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| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
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| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
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| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 |
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| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
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| 1905 | #1,538 | 7 |
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| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 |
| 1902 | #1,219 | 9 |
| 1901 | #1,227 | 8 |
| 1900 | #1,723 | 6 |
| 1899 | #1,181 | 8 |
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| 1897 | #1,263 | 7 |
| 1896 | #1,213 | 8 |
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| 1894 | #1,485 | 5 |
| 1893 | #1,277 | 6 |
| 1892 | #861 | 12 |
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 |
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 |
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| 1885 | #842 | 7 |
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| 1883 | #817 | 6 |
| 1882 | #678 | 8 |
| 1881 | #740 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rettie! It came in at #740, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1884, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Rettie is popular in 1882
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Rettie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1920
- Biggest jump: 352 spots in 1892 (#1,213 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 416 spots in 1893 (#861 → #1,277)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1882 at #678 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1884, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1881–1883
- Highest: 1 in 13,481 girls born in 1882 were named Rettie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 149,786 girls born in 1920 (0.00%)
- 35.0% of all girls named Rettie (57) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 27 | #678 (1882) | #769 |
| 1890s | 57 | #861 (1892) | #1,229 |
| 1900s | 41 | #1,219 (1902) | #1,560 |
| 1910s | 30 | #2,463 (1911) | #3,588 |
| 1920s | 8 | #3,598 (1920) | #3,598 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rettie in 1882
Top girls' names in 1882
More about 1882
girls
107,847 girls got a published name in 1882; 1 in 13,481 of them was named Rettie, which outranked 34.0% of the 1,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #634Winona9
- #634Zada9
- #634Zola9
- #678Rettie8
- #678Audie8
- #678Augustine8
- #678Aurora8
- #740Agusta7
- #740Albina7
- #740Alicia7
Tied with 61 names at #678; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 380Clementine#740 → #360
- ↑ 337Lissie#830 → #493
- ↑ 323Lonnie#830 → #507
- ↑ 300Erna#830 → #530
- ↑ 300Hedwig#830 → #530
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.