Meaning not yet researched.
Betsy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #228 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #228 in 1959; #2,724 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Betsy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,724 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #228.
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Betsy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #228 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 1,390 (1959).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Betsy, making it the 2,724th most common girls’ name of the year, down 307 places from #2,417 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 75 girls named Betsy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #228, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,390. For comparison, it was #1,696 in 2015 and #254 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Betsy in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 14 babies with the name. In all, 48,957 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 10,561 babies named Betsy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 844 US girls were named Betsy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Betsy ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,396 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Elizabeth (1,693,973 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880), Lisa (970,012 babies since 1880) and Isabella (417,454 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Betsie, Betsi and Betzi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Betsie (211), Betsi (162), Betzi (40), Bethsy (27), Bettsy (24), Bitsy (16), Behtzy (7), Bettzy (5), Betsye (5).
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 Betsy in the open dataset we use.
Betsy is listed as a nickname for Beth, Elizabeth.
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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,396 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,304 | #2,339 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,431 | #2,074 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 2019 | 92 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2018 | 94 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,900 | — | — |
| 2015 | 125 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 2012 | 139 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 2010 | 154 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 2008 | 219 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 2007 | 247 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2006 | 370 | #747 | — | — |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2004 | 153 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 2001 | 124 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1999 | 153 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1998 | 173 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1997 | 171 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1996 | 158 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1995 | 170 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1994 | 186 | #994 | — | — |
| 1993 | 233 | #841 | — | — |
| 1992 | 237 | #840 | — | — |
| 1991 | 252 | #811 | — | — |
| 1990 | 281 | #740 | — | — |
| 1989 | 302 | #675 | — | — |
| 1988 | 339 | #593 | — | — |
| 1987 | 404 | #515 | — | — |
| 1986 | 354 | #563 | — | — |
| 1985 | 399 | #507 | — | — |
| 1984 | 455 | #458 | — | — |
| 1983 | 401 | #490 | — | — |
| 1982 | 421 | #488 | — | — |
| 1981 | 448 | #473 | — | — |
| 1980 | 536 | #413 | — | — |
| 1979 | 530 | #408 | — | — |
| 1978 | 472 | #428 | — | — |
| 1977 | 470 | #433 | — | — |
| 1976 | 613 | #351 | — | — |
| 1975 | 512 | #398 | — | — |
| 1974 | 489 | #409 | — | — |
| 1973 | 549 | #379 | — | — |
| 1972 | 634 | #350 | — | — |
| 1971 | 700 | #354 | — | — |
| 1970 | 492 | #446 | — | — |
| 1969 | 414 | #474 | — | — |
| 1968 | 479 | #434 | — | — |
| 1967 | 535 | #393 | — | — |
| 1966 | 698 | #335 | — | — |
| 1965 | 932 | #287 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,026 | #284 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,078 | #277 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,012 | #287 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,132 | #270 | 5 | #4,120 |
| 1960 | 1,252 | #247 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,390 | #228 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,288 | #236 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,097 | #261 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,066 | #258 | — | — |
| 1955 | 984 | #275 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,003 | #262 | — | — |
| 1953 | 986 | #259 | — | — |
| 1952 | 976 | #251 | — | — |
| 1951 | 881 | #262 | — | — |
| 1950 | 890 | #254 | — | — |
| 1949 | 769 | #277 | — | — |
| 1948 | 719 | #286 | — | — |
| 1947 | 847 | #261 | — | — |
| 1946 | 696 | #277 | — | — |
| 1945 | 651 | #266 | — | — |
| 1944 | 670 | #267 | — | — |
| 1943 | 665 | #270 | — | — |
| 1942 | 706 | #259 | 5 | #3,616 |
| 1941 | 650 | #252 | — | — |
| 1940 | 607 | #255 | — | — |
| 1939 | 513 | #272 | — | — |
| 1938 | 480 | #286 | — | — |
| 1937 | 450 | #294 | — | — |
| 1936 | 384 | #307 | — | — |
| 1935 | 384 | #322 | — | — |
| 1934 | 357 | #331 | — | — |
| 1933 | 323 | #349 | — | — |
| 1932 | 350 | #339 | — | — |
| 1931 | 327 | #354 | — | — |
| 1930 | 361 | #349 | — | — |
| 1929 | 341 | #356 | — | — |
| 1928 | 317 | #379 | — | — |
| 1927 | 283 | #407 | — | — |
| 1926 | 262 | #426 | — | — |
| 1925 | 284 | #407 | — | — |
| 1924 | 236 | #453 | — | — |
| 1923 | 217 | #467 | — | — |
| 1922 | 228 | #454 | — | — |
| 1921 | 200 | #492 | — | — |
| 1920 | 183 | #519 | — | — |
| 1919 | 145 | #576 | — | — |
| 1918 | 178 | #516 | — | — |
| 1917 | 112 | #641 | — | — |
| 1916 | 108 | #654 | — | — |
| 1915 | 77 | #753 | — | — |
| 1914 | 79 | #652 | — | — |
| 1913 | 49 | #749 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #980 | — | — |
| 1911 | 30 | #791 | — | — |
| 1910 | 36 | #705 | — | — |
| 1909 | 25 | #814 | — | — |
| 1908 | 24 | #793 | — | — |
| 1907 | 19 | #873 | — | — |
| 1906 | 17 | #898 | — | — |
| 1905 | 17 | #904 | — | — |
| 1904 | 15 | #939 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1902 | 21 | #759 | — | — |
| 1901 | 16 | #832 | — | — |
| 1900 | 24 | #745 | — | — |
| 1899 | 14 | #882 | — | — |
| 1898 | 17 | #824 | — | — |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1896 | 14 | #875 | — | — |
| 1895 | 17 | #774 | — | — |
| 1894 | 26 | #569 | — | — |
| 1893 | 17 | #718 | — | — |
| 1892 | 27 | #527 | — | — |
| 1891 | 18 | #626 | — | — |
| 1890 | 13 | #761 | — | — |
| 1889 | 15 | #661 | — | — |
| 1888 | 22 | #534 | — | — |
| 1887 | 19 | #513 | — | — |
| 1886 | 20 | #494 | — | — |
| 1885 | 13 | #612 | — | — |
| 1884 | 19 | #464 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #543 | — | — |
| 1882 | 18 | #435 | — | — |
| 1881 | 13 | #473 | — | — |
| 1880 | 14 | #451 | — | — |
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).