Mittie
Feminine · “lady”
Mittie is a nursery form that outgrew the nursery. It served Martha and Mary alike in nineteenth-century America, and enough families wrote it on certificates for it to have a chart history of its own.
How old is the name Mittie?
Mittie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Mittie alive today was born around 1917, making them about 108 years old. About 1,000 people named Mittie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mittie most popular?
Mittie peaked in 1883, reaching #202 nationally. See the whole 1883 chart.
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Where it comes from
From marta to Mittie
The story of Mittie
Martha appears in the gospels as the sister who does the work while Mary sits and listens, and the name was in steady English use from the Reformation. Nineteenth-century American households produced a great many nursery forms of it — Mattie, Mittie, Marty, Patty — and several were registered as legal names. Mittie appears in American registers through the century and peaked around 1885.
Meaningscholars disagree
lady, mistress of the house
Read as a pet form of Martha, the meaning is the Aramaic marta, 'lady' or 'mistress' — the feminine of mar, 'lord'. Read as a pet form of Mary, it inherits the Hebrew Miryam, whose own meaning has never been settled. The short form does not say which parent it has.
How the name formed
- marta
- Martha
- Mittie
Related forms: Mitty · Marta · Mattie
Pronouncing Mittie
MIT-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Mittie and Mitty are said identically.
Nicknames for Mittie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1919144 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #202reached in 1883
- Change vs 1983
- +20.0%6 in 1989, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mittie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mitty in English — spelling variant
- Marta in Aramaic — related form
- Mattie in English — related form
Mitties among us
people named Mittie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Mittie has already lived its whole cycle: it rose, had its era, and has stepped off the charts. The fashion question is behind it — what lies ahead is the waiting room where revivals begin, once a name's first generation has grown distant enough for it to sound fresh again.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Martha stands behind it with a documented gospel history and a clear Aramaic meaning.
- Short, warm and easy for a young child to say and spell.
- It is genuinely rare now while being entirely traditional in the registers.
- The parentage is genuinely ambiguous between Martha and Mary.
- It is firmly period-coded to the nineteenth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mitties are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Mittie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mittie in 2025?
- Mittie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Mittie with classmates?
- Mittie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
Mary#125 · Margaret#112 · Michelle#465 · Melissa#419 · Maria#87 · Martha#712 · Marie#617 · Mildred#1962
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