Meaning not yet researched.
Bethanie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,227 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,227 in 1987; #11,102 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bethanie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,102 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,227.
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Bethanie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,227 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 131 (1991).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Bethanie, making it the 11,102nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,227, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 131, in 1991. For comparison, it was #4,313 in 2015 and #4,358 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bethanie in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 7 babies. In all, 3,733 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,145 babies named Bethanie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 143 US girls were named Bethanie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bethany (101,086 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Betania, Bethannie and Bethenia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Betania (376), Bethannie (143), Bethenia (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bethanie in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,102 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,705 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,114 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,068 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,048 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,803 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,820 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,073 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,857 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,344 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,165 | — | — |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,705 | — | — |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,232 | — | — |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1996 | 130 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1992 | 125 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1991 | 131 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,532 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,519 | — | — |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,762 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,328 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,460 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,429 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,816 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,729 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,358 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).