Nettie (name)

Nettie is a feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Annette, Jeanette, Lynnette and Antonia. Its popularity in the United States has continually declined since its peak in the 1910s and 1920s. ^[1] Notable people with this name include:

Given name

• Nettie Craig Asberry (1865–1968), American educator
• Nettie Lee Benson (1905–1993), American librarian
• Nettie McKenzie Clapp (1868–1935), American politician
• Nettie Crawford, the 1962 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
• Nettie Depp (1874–1932), American education reformer and public official
• Nettie Grooss (1905–1977), Dutch sprinter
• Nettie Jane Kennedy (1916–2002), American artist
• Nettie McBirney (1887–1982), American inventor
• Nettie Mayersohn (1926–2020), American politician
• Nettie Metcalf (1859–1945), American poultry farmer
• Nettie Leila Michel (1863–1912), American businesswoman, author and magazine editor
• Nettie Langston Napier (1861–1938), American activist
• Nettie Nielsen (born 1964), Danish badminton player
• Nettie Rosenstein (1890–1980), American fashion designer
• Nettie Stevens (1861–1912), American geneticist
• Nettie Barcroft Taylor (1914–2016), American librarian
• Nettie L. White (c. 1850–1921), American suffragist and stenographer
• Nettie Wiebe (born 1949), Canadian professor
• Nettie Wild, Canadian filmmaker
• Nettie Young (1916–2010), American artist

Nickname/stagename

• Nettie Adler (1868–1950), born Henrietta Adler, English politician

• Nettie Sanford Chapin (1830–1901), born Henrietta Maria Skiff, American teacher, historian, author, newspaper publisher and suffragist

• Nettie Fowler (1835–1923), nickname of Nancy Fowler McCormick, American philanthropist
• Nettie Honeyball, pseudonym of possibly Mary Hutson, English footballer
• Nettie Cronise Lutes (1843–1923), nickname of Annette Cronise Lutes, American lawyer
• Nettie Parrish Martin (1840–1915), nom de plume of Marie Antoinette Parrish Hough Martin, American writer
• Nettie Palmer (1885–1964), nickname of Janet Gertrude Palmer, née Higgins, Australian poet and critic
• Nettie Runnals (1885–1980), nickname of Ninetta May Runnals, American academic
• Nettie Tobin (1863–1944), nickname of Esther Tobin, American Bahá'í community member

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

Notes

1. "Nettie". Name-doctor.com. Retrieved October 12, 2019.