Nettie is a feminine

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that is a diminutive form of

Annette Annette may refer to: Film and television * '' Walt Disney Presents: Annette'', 1950s television series * ''Annette'' (film), a 2021 musical film Other * Annette (given name), list of people with the name * Annette Island, Alaska * Tropical Stor ...

Jeanette Jeanette, Jeannette or Jeanetta may refer to: * Jeanette (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) Places * Jeannette, Ontario, Canada * Jeannette Island, Russia * Jeannette, Pennsylvania, U.S ...

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and

Antonia Antonia may refer to: People * Antonia (name), including a list of people with the name * Antonia gens, a Roman family, any woman of the gens was named ''Antonia'' * Antônia (footballer) * Antônia Melo Entertainment * ''Antonia's Line'', or ...

. Its popularity in the United States has continually declined since its peak in the 1910s and 1920s. Notable people with this name include:

Given name

* Nettie Craig Asberry (1865–1968), American educator *

Nettie Lee Benson Nettie Lee Benson (January 15, 1905 – June 24, 1993) was an American teacher, librarian, and archivist in Texas. She worked at the Latin American Collection at the University of Texas for 34 years, later renamed as the Benson Latin American C ...

(1905–1993), American librarian *

Nettie Sanford Chapin Nettie Sanford Chapin (, Skiff; after first marriage, Sanford; after second marriage, Chapin; pseudonym, E. N. Chapin; March 28, 1830 – August 20, 1901) was a 19th-century American teacher, historian, author, newspaper publisher, suffragist, an ...

(1830–1901), American teacher, historian, author, newspaper publisher and suffragist * 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 Nettie Mayersohn (May 30, 1924 – August 13, 2020) was a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 27th District in Flushing, Queens. Her district extended from Kew Gardens Hills, to Kew Gardens and the northern edge of Richmond ...

(1926–2020), American politician *

Nettie Metcalf Nettie Metcalf (née Williams; October 13, 1859 – 1945) was an American farmer from Warren, Ohio. She is best known for creating the Buckeye chicken breed, which was officiated by the American Poultry Association in February 1905. Metcalf att ...

(1859–1945), American poultry farmer *

Nettie Leila Michel Nettie Leila Michel (, Champion; after first marriage, Michel; after second marriage, Smith; after third marriage, Jeannette Champion Roake; September 26, 1863 – June 29, 1912) was an American business woman, author, and magazine editor of the lo ...

(1863–1912), American businesswoman, author and magazine editor *

Nettie Langston Napier Nettie Langston Napier (born Nettie DeElla Langston) was an African-American activist for the rights of women of color during the early part of the 20th century. She lived in Nashville, Tennessee. Biography Nettie Langston was born June 17, 1861 ...

(1861–1938), American activist *

Nettie Nielsen Nettie Nielsen (born 23 July 1964) is a retired female badminton player from Denmark. European & Danish titles Nielsen won the gold medal at the 1988 and 1990 European Badminton Championships in women's doubles with Dorte Kjaer.

(born 1964), Danish badminton player *

Nettie Rosenstein Nettie Rosenstein (1890 - March 13, 1980) was an American fashion designer, based in New York City between c.1913 and 1975. She was particularly renowned for her little black dresses and costume jewelry.Libo, Dr. Kenneth; & Skakun, Michael, Two Ou ...

(1890–1980), American fashion designer *

Nettie Stevens Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sper ...

(1861–1912), American geneticist * Nettie Barcroft Taylor (1914–2016), American librarian * Nettie L. White (c. 1850–1921), American suffragist and stenographer *

Nettie Wiebe Nettie Wiebe (born January 22, 1949) is a Canadian professor. She grew up near Warman, Saskatchewan. She has a BA and MA in Philosophy from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Calgary. Wiebe first bec ...

(born 1949), Canadian professor * Nettie Wild, Canadian filmmaker * Nettie Young (1916–2010), American artist

Nickname/stagename

*Nettie Adler (1868–1950), born

Henrietta Adler Henrietta Adler (1 December 1868 – 15 April 1950), known as Nettie Adler, was a British Liberal Party politician who was one of the first women to be elected to and to be able to take her seat on the London County Council. Early life Adler ...

, English politician *Nettie Fowler (1835–1923), nickname of

Nancy Fowler McCormick Nancy Maria "Nettie" McCormick (; February 8, 1835 – July 5, 1923) was an American philanthropist. Through marriage, she became a member of the prominent McCormick family. Early life Nettie was born on February 8, 1835, at Brownsville, New Yor ...

, American philanthropist *

Nettie Honeyball Nettie Honeyball, also referred to as Nettie J. Honeyball, was the founder of the British Ladies' Football Club, the first known women's association football club, and one of their players until spring 1895. The name Nettie Honeyball was a pseudo ...

, pseudonym of possibly Mary Hutson, English footballer *

Nettie Cronise Lutes Annette "Nettie" Cronise Lutes (September 26, 1843, Tiffin, Ohio - July 31, 1923, Tiffin, Ohio) was the first woman admitted to the bar in the state of Ohio. Biography Lutes was born Annette Staub; her parents were Dr. Jacob Staub and Katherine B ...

(1843–1923), nickname of Annette Cronise Lutes, American lawyer *

Nettie Parrish Martin Marie Antoinette Parrish Hough Martin (1840 - October 28, 1915) under her pen name Nettie Parrish Martin wrote and published two books: ''Indian Legends of Early Days'' (January 1905 Mayhew Publishing Co), a book of Six Nations Iroquois legends, ...

(1840–1915), nom de plume of Marie Antoinette Parrish Hough Martin, American writer *

Nettie Palmer Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer (née Higgins) (18 August 1885 – 19 October 1964) was an Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day. She corresponded with women writers and collated the Centenary Gift Book which ...

(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)

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