Meaning not yet researched.
Bettie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #131 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #131 in 1882; #9,549 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bettie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,549 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #131.
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Bettie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #131 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 1,228 (1924).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Bettie, making it the 9,549th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,012 places from #8,537 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Bettie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #131, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,228, in 1924. For comparison, it was #11,035 in 2015 and #387 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bettie in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 113 babies. In all, 38,478 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 10,362 babies named Bettie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 89 US girls were named Bettie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bette (34,919 babies since 1880), Betty (1,004,857 babies since 1880) and Bettye (22,967 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bethia, Beattie and Bethie 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bethia (29), Beattie (5), Bethie (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 Bettie 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 | 10 | #9,549 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,537 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,570 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,800 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,069 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,666 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,851 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,701 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,114 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,035 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,039 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,658 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,277 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,163 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,794 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,978 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,596 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,641 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,716 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,002 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,454 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,286 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,228 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,875 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,594 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,367 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,925 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,230 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,967 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,705 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,558 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,486 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,361 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,700 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,303 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,647 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,986 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,364 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,517 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,154 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,913 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1965 | 75 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1963 | 100 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1962 | 118 | #987 | — | — |
| 1961 | 145 | #896 | — | — |
| 1960 | 174 | #775 | — | — |
| 1959 | 229 | #663 | 5 | #4,046 |
| 1958 | 205 | #690 | — | — |
| 1957 | 272 | #586 | — | — |
| 1956 | 246 | #611 | — | — |
| 1955 | 279 | #548 | — | — |
| 1954 | 321 | #495 | — | — |
| 1953 | 326 | #476 | — | — |
| 1952 | 371 | #445 | — | — |
| 1951 | 490 | #363 | — | — |
| 1950 | 437 | #387 | — | — |
| 1949 | 538 | #336 | — | — |
| 1948 | 616 | #308 | — | — |
| 1947 | 649 | #307 | — | — |
| 1946 | 679 | #282 | — | — |
| 1945 | 691 | #255 | 5 | #3,378 |
| 1944 | 719 | #251 | — | — |
| 1943 | 782 | #245 | — | — |
| 1942 | 724 | #256 | — | — |
| 1941 | 732 | #235 | 5 | #3,552 |
| 1940 | 747 | #225 | — | — |
| 1939 | 776 | #214 | 5 | #3,528 |
| 1938 | 869 | #201 | 9 | #2,498 |
| 1937 | 762 | #218 | — | — |
| 1936 | 825 | #203 | 6 | #3,181 |
| 1935 | 831 | #205 | — | — |
| 1934 | 916 | #196 | — | — |
| 1933 | 921 | #185 | 11 | #2,225 |
| 1932 | 999 | #183 | 5 | #3,833 |
| 1931 | 1,032 | #177 | — | — |
| 1930 | 1,005 | #191 | 5 | #4,051 |
| 1929 | 1,029 | #190 | 6 | #3,596 |
| 1928 | 1,098 | #186 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,072 | #190 | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1926 | 1,183 | #178 | 6 | #3,747 |
| 1925 | 1,204 | #181 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,228 | #183 | 5 | #4,416 |
| 1923 | 1,058 | #197 | 5 | #4,305 |
| 1922 | 868 | #219 | — | — |
| 1921 | 818 | #228 | — | — |
| 1920 | 777 | #232 | — | — |
| 1919 | 608 | #259 | — | — |
| 1918 | 522 | #273 | — | — |
| 1917 | 447 | #291 | — | — |
| 1916 | 339 | #332 | — | — |
| 1915 | 347 | #317 | — | — |
| 1914 | 256 | #328 | — | — |
| 1913 | 216 | #325 | — | — |
| 1912 | 191 | #327 | — | — |
| 1911 | 153 | #316 | — | — |
| 1910 | 166 | #300 | — | — |
| 1909 | 137 | #312 | — | — |
| 1908 | 130 | #311 | — | — |
| 1907 | 157 | #278 | — | — |
| 1906 | 110 | #317 | — | — |
| 1905 | 128 | #294 | — | — |
| 1904 | 155 | #252 | — | — |
| 1903 | 123 | #282 | — | — |
| 1902 | 145 | #259 | — | — |
| 1901 | 111 | #281 | — | — |
| 1900 | 167 | #250 | — | — |
| 1899 | 135 | #239 | — | — |
| 1898 | 150 | #240 | — | — |
| 1897 | 138 | #239 | — | — |
| 1896 | 125 | #255 | — | — |
| 1895 | 133 | #239 | — | — |
| 1894 | 118 | #250 | — | — |
| 1893 | 129 | #230 | — | — |
| 1892 | 155 | #202 | — | — |
| 1891 | 138 | #194 | — | — |
| 1890 | 136 | #204 | — | — |
| 1889 | 144 | #188 | — | — |
| 1888 | 169 | #172 | — | — |
| 1887 | 117 | #183 | — | — |
| 1886 | 141 | #164 | — | — |
| 1885 | 127 | #162 | — | — |
| 1884 | 118 | #164 | — | — |
| 1883 | 130 | #145 | — | — |
| 1882 | 136 | #131 | — | — |
| 1881 | 103 | #148 | — | — |
| 1880 | 113 | #138 | — | — |
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).