Meaning not yet researched.
Betzy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,098 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,098 in 2006; #13,466 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Betzy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,466 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,098.
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Betzy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,098 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 229 (2006).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Betzy, making it the 13,466th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,098, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 229. For comparison, it was #8,074 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Betzy in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 981 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 586 babies named Betzy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 93 US girls were named Betzy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Betsy (48,957 babies since 1880), Elisabeth (48,045 babies since 1880), Betsey (2,481 babies since 1880) and Bethzy (360 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bethzi 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: Bethzi (18).
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 Betzy 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 | 6 | #13,466 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,352 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,115 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,423 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,486 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,415 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,071 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,834 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,952 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,074 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,497 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,998 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,236 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,369 | — | — |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,572 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 2006 | 229 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,614 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,745 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,392 | — | — |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,100 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,596 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,211 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,685 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,159 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,662 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,137 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,207 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,600 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,087 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,367 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,738 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,445 | — | — |
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).