Nettie (name)
Nettie is a Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish, given name that is a diminutive form of Annette, Jeanette, Anna and Antonia in use in The United States, Mexico and most of Canada, Suriname, Guyana, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Republic of Karelia, Estonia, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Greenland, England, Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Its popularity in United States has continually declined since its peak in the 1910s and 1920s.[1] Notable people with this name include the following:
Given name
- Nettie Craig Asberry (1865–1968), American educator
- Nettie Sanford Chapin (1830–1901), teacher, historian, author, newspaper publisher, suffragist
- Nettie McKenzie Clapp (1868–1935), American politician
- Nettie Crawford, the 1962 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion; see List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions
- Nettie Depp (1874–1932), American education reformer and public official
- Nettie Grooss (1905–1977), Dutch sprinter
- Nettie Jane Kennedy (1916–2002), American artist
- Nettie Mayersohn (born 1926), American politician
- Nettie McBirney (1887–1982), American inventor
- Nettie Leila Michel (1863—?), American business woman, author, magazine editor
- Nettie Langston Napier, American activist
- Nettie Nielsen Danish badminton player
- Nettie Rosenstein (1890–1980), American fashion designer
- Nettie Stevens (1861–1912), American geneticist
- Nettie Barcroft Taylor (1914–2016), American librarian
- Nettie Wiebe (born 1949), Canadian professor
- Nettie Wild, Canadian filmmaker
- Nettie Young (1916–2010), American artist
Nickname/stagename
- Nettie Fowler, nickname of Nancy Fowler McCormick (1835–1923), American philanthropist
- Nettie Honeyball, pseudonym of possibly Mary Hutson, English footballer
- Nettie Cronise Lutes, nickname of Annette Cronise Lutes (1843–1923), American lawyer
- Nettie Parrish Martin, nom de plume Marie Antoinette Parrish Hough Martin (1840–1915), American writer
- Nettie Palmer, nickname of Janet Gertrude Palmer, née Higgins, (1885–1964), Australian poet and critic
- Nettie Runnals, nickname of Ninetta May Runnals (1885–1980), American academic
- Nettie Tobin, nickname of Esther Tobin (1863–1944), American Bahá'í
Fictional characters
- Nettie Fowler, a character in Carousel (musical)
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Nettie
- All pages with titles containing Nettie
- Nettie (disambiguation)
- Nettle (disambiguation)
- Nette (disambiguation)
- Netti (disambiguation)
- Netti Shanker Yadav