Betania
Betania was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,305 among girls’ names; 376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Betania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Betania mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Betania is “a female given name”
/beˈtanja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Betania?
#15,305 among girls’ names, 2025
Betania fell from #8,068 in 2015 to #15,305 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.1 per million.
42 babies in 2017, the peak
Betania peaked in 2017, when 42 girls were given it, #3,641 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,305 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,403 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,345 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,794 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,555 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,480 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,751 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,453 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,641 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,452 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,068 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,120 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,375 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,815 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,945 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,920 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,914 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,594 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,798 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,233 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,798 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,133 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,925 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,147 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,665 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,897 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,276 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,781 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,689 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,729 | 3.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,316 | 3.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,424 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Betania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Betania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Betania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Betania, and how old are they?
An estimated 372 Americans named Betania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Betania (674 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,392 babies since 1880, Betania is the second most given (27% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Betania
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Betania and names like it
- Compare Betania and BetinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBetania peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Betania since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Betania: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Betania.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Betania alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.