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• A submission from South Africa says the name Pretty means "Beautiful" and is of African origin.
• A user from South Africa says the name Pretty is of African origin and means "Beautiful".
• According to a user from South Africa, the name Pretty is of English origin and means "Beautiful".

Other origins: Indian (Sanskrit) and Hindu

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

adjective Pret"ty

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1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem. "This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward." [Shak.]
2. Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune."Wavering a prettywhile." [Evelyn.]
3. Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense."The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world." [Spectator.]
4. Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
5. Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.(Scot)"He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome." [Sir W. Scott.]
   synonyms: Elegant; neat; fine. See Handsome.

Etymology: OE. prati, AS. prættig prætig, crafty, sly, akin to præt prætt, deceit, trickery, Icel. prettugr tricky, prettr a trick; probably fr. Latin, perhaps through Celtic; cf. W. praith act, deed, practice, LL. practica execution, practice, plot. See Practice

adverb Pret"ty

In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.

Other Dictionary Sources

1. Pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing ("pretty girl", "pretty song", and "pretty room")
2. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad ("a pretty mess" and "a pretty kettle of fish")
3. To certain extent or degree ("pretty big" and "pretty bad")
   Synonyms: fairly, jolly, middling, moderately, passably, reasonably, and somewhat

Wiktionary

From Middle English prety, preti, praty, prati, from Old English prættiġ (“tricky, crafty, sly, cunning, wily, astute”), from Proto-Germanic *prattugaz (“boastful, sly, slick, deceitful, tricky, cunning”), corresponding to prat (“trick”) +‎ -y. Cognate with Dutch prettig (“nice, pleasant”), dialectal German (East Frisia) prettig (“funny”), German protzig (“showy, ostentatious, swanky, pretentious”), Icelandic prettugur (“deceitful, tricky”). For the sense-development, compare canny, clever, cute.

1. A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
2. Something that is pretty.

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Fun Facts about the name Pretty

• How Popular is the name Pretty? Pretty is the 43,458^th most popular name of all time. As a last name Pretty was the 26,975^th most popular name in 2010.
• How many people with the first name Pretty have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 64 babies born with the first name Pretty in the United States.
• What year were 5 or more babies first named Pretty? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1982 when it was given as a first name to 6 new born babies.
• When was Pretty first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Pretty is Friday, May 15th, 1896.
• What year had the most people named Pretty born? The highest recorded use of the first name Pretty was in 2010 with a total of 9 babies.
• Weird things about the name Pretty: Your name in reverse order is Ytterp. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Etyprt. How do you pronounce that?
• How many people have the last name Pretty? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 899 people with the last name Pretty.
• How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Pretty? Chances are, most people haven't met someone with Pretty as their last name since less than 1 person in 333k people have that last name. If you know one, consider yourself lucky!

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