Meaning not yet researched.
Bettina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #714 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #714 in 1965; #10,229 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bettina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,229 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #714.
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Bettina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #714 in 1965 · most girls in one year: 192 (1965).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Bettina, making it the 10,229th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,440 places from #15,669 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 5 girls named Bettina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #714, reached in 1965. That year also had the most girls given the name: 192. For comparison, it was #14,798 in 2015 and #1,100 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bettina in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 5 babies. In all, 6,482 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,641 babies named Bettina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 87 US girls were named Bettina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Tina (293,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bethena and Bethina 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 Dutch, German and Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bethena (48), Bethina (20).
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 Bettina 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 | 9 | #10,229 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,669 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,452 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,450 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,562 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,261 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,922 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,940 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,832 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,479 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,798 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,637 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,104 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,278 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,319 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,412 | — | — |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,519 | — | — |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,597 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,050 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,589 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,413 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,889 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,648 | — | — |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,890 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,606 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,541 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,606 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,704 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,229 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,432 | — | — |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1984 | 102 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1983 | 110 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1982 | 127 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1981 | 159 | #937 | — | — |
| 1980 | 158 | #948 | — | — |
| 1979 | 149 | #967 | — | — |
| 1978 | 139 | #992 | — | — |
| 1977 | 75 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1974 | 103 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1973 | 121 | #980 | — | — |
| 1972 | 122 | #982 | — | — |
| 1971 | 120 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1970 | 118 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1969 | 108 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1968 | 176 | #746 | — | — |
| 1967 | 147 | #826 | — | — |
| 1966 | 153 | #801 | — | — |
| 1965 | 192 | #714 | — | — |
| 1964 | 167 | #808 | — | — |
| 1963 | 189 | #749 | — | — |
| 1962 | 168 | #806 | — | — |
| 1961 | 168 | #809 | — | — |
| 1960 | 173 | #776 | — | — |
| 1959 | 112 | #997 | — | — |
| 1958 | 115 | #962 | — | — |
| 1957 | 139 | #863 | — | — |
| 1956 | 126 | #888 | — | — |
| 1955 | 83 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1954 | 81 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1952 | 62 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1951 | 62 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1950 | 70 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1949 | 64 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1948 | 59 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1947 | 86 | #958 | — | — |
| 1946 | 71 | #997 | — | — |
| 1945 | 67 | #927 | — | — |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,349 | — | — |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1916 | 35 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,825 | — | — |
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).