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[EmilyA]

Hattie Lou

Love love love this combo.

I'm worried that this name is getting TOO popular.

Thoughts?

[Katie-Nana]

Hattie only just made it back on the baby naming charts (ranked #993) since it dropped off the charts in 1969. Last year 253 girls were named Hattie, which is only 0.01% (probably a rounded figure) of girls born last year. Since it is commonly a nickname for Harriet, I looked up those stats as well. Only 86 girls were named Harriet, 6 named Harriette & 5 named Harriett. Of course their may be some other unique spellings that I can't think of. If all went by Hattie that would give you a total of 350 girls born. Which is even with Edith & Martha and makes up only 0.02% of girls born. This means that 1 in 5,000 girls born last year are named Hattie.

To give you an idea of how fast it is rising. In 2010 there were 157 Hattie's born, 56 Harriet's, & 5 Harriett's. Less than 0.01% or less than 1 in 10,000.


I think Hattie has been getting a lot of press from Tori Spelling which makes it seem more popular than it actually is. With new star baby Hattie, I'm sure we will see it gain a little popularity, but I think you are still safe in the fact that it will be a great under used option.

[Remy Hadley]

I ditto Katie, couldn't have said it better myself

Here's the link to the SSA charts for you, though! If you worry about the popularity of a name, just look it up You can chose to look up one name individually or you can look up all the names of the top 1000 and see number of births to each name / percent of births to it. I use Ctrl + F to look up a particular name in the huge list

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

[ashooles]

I don't think it's all that popular. It's very old fashioned (which I love). I like it