Arrietty
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 14 babies a year in England and Wales.
Arrietty by the numbers
In 2025, 14 babies in England and Wales were named Arrietty. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 12 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Arrietty
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Arrietty. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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