Meaning not yet researched.
Bette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #148 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #148 in 1923; #11,103 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,103 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #148.
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Bette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #148 in 1923 · most girls in one year: 1,736 (1924).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Bette, making it the 11,103rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,067 places from #9,036 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 girls named Bette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #148, reached in 1923. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,736, in 1924. For comparison, it was #11,034 in 2015 and #377 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bette in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 34,919 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 13,285 babies named Bette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 85 US girls were named Bette; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 15. 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 Beth (159,755 babies since 1880) and Bettie (38,478 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Bette 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 | #11,103 | — | — |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,036 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,386 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,760 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,359 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,921 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,255 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,063 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,034 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,127 | — | — |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,402 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,311 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,267 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,730 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,153 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,697 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,708 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,013 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,704 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,702 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,527 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,016 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,565 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,598 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,314 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,870 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,620 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,709 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,242 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,762 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,960 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,599 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,344 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,007 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,886 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,245 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1970 | 32 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1965 | 75 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1964 | 105 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1962 | 117 | #992 | — | — |
| 1961 | 146 | #889 | — | — |
| 1960 | 145 | #859 | — | — |
| 1959 | 191 | #731 | — | — |
| 1958 | 188 | #719 | — | — |
| 1957 | 267 | #592 | — | — |
| 1956 | 282 | #558 | — | — |
| 1955 | 339 | #501 | — | — |
| 1954 | 389 | #445 | — | — |
| 1953 | 444 | #405 | — | — |
| 1952 | 384 | #438 | — | — |
| 1951 | 495 | #359 | — | — |
| 1950 | 459 | #377 | — | — |
| 1949 | 570 | #326 | — | — |
| 1948 | 581 | #323 | — | — |
| 1947 | 739 | #284 | — | — |
| 1946 | 732 | #267 | — | — |
| 1945 | 640 | #270 | — | — |
| 1944 | 691 | #261 | — | — |
| 1943 | 769 | #251 | — | — |
| 1942 | 836 | #229 | — | — |
| 1941 | 747 | #230 | — | — |
| 1940 | 729 | #233 | 5 | #3,495 |
| 1939 | 736 | #228 | — | — |
| 1938 | 742 | #225 | — | — |
| 1937 | 685 | #239 | — | — |
| 1936 | 717 | #227 | — | — |
| 1935 | 658 | #245 | — | — |
| 1934 | 741 | #231 | 5 | #3,721 |
| 1933 | 855 | #205 | — | — |
| 1932 | 772 | #220 | — | — |
| 1931 | 709 | #229 | — | — |
| 1930 | 774 | #221 | — | — |
| 1929 | 884 | #209 | 6 | #3,595 |
| 1928 | 1,000 | #202 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,189 | #175 | — | — |
| 1926 | 1,381 | #166 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,592 | #155 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,736 | #151 | 6 | #3,915 |
| 1923 | 1,693 | #148 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,482 | #160 | — | — |
| 1921 | 1,316 | #169 | — | — |
| 1920 | 1,000 | #196 | — | — |
| 1919 | 718 | #236 | — | — |
| 1918 | 582 | #260 | — | — |
| 1917 | 387 | #313 | — | — |
| 1916 | 230 | #409 | — | — |
| 1915 | 148 | #510 | — | — |
| 1914 | 82 | #638 | — | — |
| 1913 | 53 | #712 | — | — |
| 1912 | 38 | #810 | — | — |
| 1911 | 29 | #802 | — | — |
| 1910 | 21 | #943 | — | — |
| 1909 | 19 | #942 | — | — |
| 1908 | 18 | #945 | — | — |
| 1907 | 16 | #950 | — | — |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 1902 | 14 | #944 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,610 | — | — |
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).