Bethani
Bethani was last recorded in 2015, when 7 babies were given it; 1,020 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bethani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bethani?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,213, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1988, the peak
Bethani peaked in 1988, when 46 girls were given it, #2,368 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,213 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,867 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,438 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,405 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,513 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,946 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,384 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,117 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,857 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,397 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 23 | #5,458 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,611 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,877 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,192 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,372 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,334 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,590 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,839 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,634 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,029 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,877 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,104 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,106 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,826 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,737 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,903 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,253 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,368 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,531 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,765 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,741 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,740 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,438 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,907 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,361 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,341 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,676 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,597 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,559 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,378 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,546 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,894 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,618 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,320 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,441 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,096 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,014 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,315 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,892 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bethani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bethani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bethani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bethani, and how old are they?
An estimated 995 Americans named Bethani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 896 people named Bethani (893 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,001 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Bethani?
Bethani is a less common spelling of Bethany: SSA has recorded 1,020 Bethani and 101,086 Bethany since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,470 babies since 1880, Bethani is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 370 babies recorded by SSA was a Bethani (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Bethani
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 Bethani and names like it
- Compare Bethani and BethanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBethani peaked in 1988.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bethani since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Bethani.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bethani alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.