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Betty

Pronounced /ˈbɛti/

Rank in 2024
#1,011
Born in 2024
253
Peak year
1930 · #2
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 253 girls were named Betty, about 1 in every 6,376.
  • It peaked in 1930 with 38,238 babies, ranked #2.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 1,001,019 girls have been named Betty since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Betty per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 12.8
    Greatest
  2. 24.1
    Silent
  3. 5.5
    Boomers
  4. 1.0
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 262,487 babies, 12.82 per 1,000. Silent: 497,554 babies, 24.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 198,512 babies, 5.54 per 1,000. Gen X: 25,689 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,574 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,457 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,366 babies, 0.12 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
  • A popular given name in the early 20th century, often in the form Betty Lou.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈbɛti/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Betty, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Bettie

    Rank
    #8,823
    Born '24
    12
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Bette

    Rank
    #9,433
    Born '24
    11
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Bettye

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19332024