Meaning not yet researched.
Bethany: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 362 in 2025. Its best rank was #87 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #87 in 1987; #752 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bethany in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#752 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #87.
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Bethany: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 362 girls in 2025. Peak: #87 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 3,294 (1987).
In 2025, 362 US girls were named Bethany, making it the 752nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 27 places from #725 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 389 girls named Bethany in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #87, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,294. For comparison, it was #415 in 2015 and #804 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bethany in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 101,086 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 29,435 babies named Bethany.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,062 US girls were named Bethany; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 692. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bethany ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #354 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bethanie (3,733 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bethani, Bethaney and Betheny 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 Aramaic and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bethani (1,020), Bethaney (632), Betheny (268), Bethanny (239), Bethania (229), Bethanee (188), Bethenny (84), Betanya (22), Bittany (22), Bethony (18), Betony (8), Bethanni (6), and more.
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 Bethany in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #354 | #584 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #387 | #510 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #424 | #396 |
| Ohio | 20 | #514 | #388 |
| Indiana | 12 | #550 | #279 |
| Iowa | 5 | #577 | #474 |
| Virginia | 12 | #615 | #389 |
| California | 48 | #646 | #310 |
| Missouri | 8 | #651 | #572 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #664 | #439 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #672 | #782 |
| Washington | 9 | #691 | #413 |
| Colorado | 7 | #720 | #577 |
| Maryland | 6 | #743 | #381 |
| Texas | 40 | #746 | #274 |
| Michigan | 9 | #800 | #673 |
| Alabama | 5 | #835 | #621 |
| New York | 18 | #866 | #667 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #906 | #404 |
| Arizona | 6 | #937 | #664 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,097 | #465 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,125 | #519 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,138 | #580 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 362 | #752 | — | — |
| 2024 | 389 | #725 | — | — |
| 2023 | 390 | #721 | — | — |
| 2022 | 444 | #665 | — | — |
| 2021 | 465 | #637 | — | — |
| 2020 | 483 | #602 | — | — |
| 2019 | 550 | #552 | — | — |
| 2018 | 658 | #475 | — | — |
| 2017 | 629 | #497 | — | — |
| 2016 | 692 | #460 | — | — |
| 2015 | 770 | #415 | — | — |
| 2014 | 829 | #393 | — | — |
| 2013 | 803 | #386 | — | — |
| 2012 | 904 | #352 | — | — |
| 2011 | 915 | #350 | — | — |
| 2010 | 865 | #368 | — | — |
| 2009 | 965 | #341 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,065 | #315 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,168 | #291 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,405 | #243 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,504 | #227 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,629 | #207 | 8 | #8,220 |
| 2003 | 1,619 | #204 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,793 | #178 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,030 | #158 | 5 | #10,751 |
| 2000 | 2,191 | #151 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,303 | #140 | 7 | #7,954 |
| 1998 | 2,490 | #132 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,623 | #121 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,699 | #117 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,743 | #116 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1994 | 2,774 | #116 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,840 | #115 | 6 | #7,730 |
| 1992 | 2,930 | #115 | 7 | #6,733 |
| 1991 | 3,113 | #109 | 5 | #8,340 |
| 1990 | 3,238 | #107 | 7 | #6,476 |
| 1989 | 3,081 | #102 | 15 | #3,632 |
| 1988 | 3,270 | #89 | 5 | #7,397 |
| 1987 | 3,294 | #87 | 13 | #3,545 |
| 1986 | 3,082 | #91 | 7 | #5,393 |
| 1985 | 2,959 | #94 | 9 | #4,364 |
| 1984 | 2,980 | #93 | 10 | #3,946 |
| 1983 | 2,765 | #99 | 13 | #3,249 |
| 1982 | 2,713 | #112 | 11 | #3,712 |
| 1981 | 2,690 | #114 | 11 | #3,628 |
| 1980 | 2,497 | #124 | 10 | #3,875 |
| 1979 | 2,094 | #135 | 8 | #4,449 |
| 1978 | 1,764 | #155 | 6 | #5,131 |
| 1977 | 1,532 | #176 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,293 | #192 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,136 | #218 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,181 | #217 | 5 | #5,292 |
| 1973 | 1,042 | #243 | — | — |
| 1972 | 781 | #309 | 5 | #5,063 |
| 1971 | 654 | #363 | — | — |
| 1970 | 703 | #356 | 6 | #4,278 |
| 1969 | 623 | #372 | — | — |
| 1968 | 501 | #422 | — | — |
| 1967 | 475 | #430 | — | — |
| 1966 | 430 | #453 | — | — |
| 1965 | 387 | #483 | — | — |
| 1964 | 367 | #511 | — | — |
| 1963 | 334 | #531 | — | — |
| 1962 | 249 | #640 | — | — |
| 1961 | 226 | #697 | — | — |
| 1960 | 215 | #694 | — | — |
| 1959 | 199 | #708 | — | — |
| 1958 | 146 | #845 | — | — |
| 1957 | 158 | #805 | — | — |
| 1956 | 156 | #792 | — | — |
| 1955 | 170 | #727 | — | — |
| 1954 | 173 | #706 | — | — |
| 1953 | 120 | #849 | — | — |
| 1952 | 130 | #791 | — | — |
| 1951 | 145 | #725 | — | — |
| 1950 | 117 | #804 | — | — |
| 1949 | 96 | #903 | — | — |
| 1948 | 71 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1947 | 48 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1946 | 50 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,511 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,211 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,404 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,838 | — | — |
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).