Bethanie
Bethanie was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,098 among girls’ names; 3,733 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,620 Americans named Bethanie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bethanie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bethanie?
#11,098 among girls’ names, 2025
Bethanie fell from #4,312 in 2015 to #11,098 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 5.0 per million.
131 babies in 1991, the peak
Bethanie peaked in 1991, when 131 girls were given it, #1,274 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,098 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,700 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,109 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,063 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,043 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,799 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,816 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,071 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,439 | 18.1 |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,312 | 18.5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 39 | #3,855 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,342 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,127 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,613 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,419 | 26.4 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,949 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,164 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,861 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,941 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,701 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,287 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,229 | 42.1 |
| 2002 | 86 | #2,017 | 47.9 |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,993 | 47.2 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,602 | 60.6 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,652 | 56.4 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,391 | 69.6 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,417 | 67.2 |
| 1996 | 130 | #1,313 | 74.2 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,454 | 62.6 |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,541 | 56.0 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,519 | 56.9 |
| 1992 | 125 | #1,337 | 67.8 |
| 1991 | 131 | #1,274 | 69.9 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,465 | 55.8 |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,371 | 59.7 |
| 1988 | 83 | #1,579 | 46.6 |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,227 | 66.7 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,539 | 46.0 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,505 | 47.1 |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,447 | 47.5 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,358 | 52.7 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,722 | 38.4 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,384 | 53.4 |
| 1980 | 77 | #1,532 | 46.4 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,569 | 45.5 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,637 | 42.4 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,738 | 38.5 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,937 | 31.4 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,099 | 28.1 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,822 | 32.7 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,270 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,530 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,603 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,453 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,139 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,251 | 17.7 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,708 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,518 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,472 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,754 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,473 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,042 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,924 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,761 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,326 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,459 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,428 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,360 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,814 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,727 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,356 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bethanie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bethanie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bethanie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bethanie, and how old are they?
3,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,733 Americans ever recorded as Bethanie. The median Bethanie alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 3,199 people named Bethanie (3,194 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 606 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 238 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Bethanie born?
The states with the most babies named Bethanie are Texas, California and Ohio, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 309 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 70 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 55 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bethanie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Bethanie?
Bethanie is a less common spelling of Bethany: SSA has recorded 3,733 Bethanie and 101,086 Bethany since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,423 babies since 1880, Bethanie is the second most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 370 babies (2.2%), again the second most given.
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 Bethanie
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 Bethanie and names like it
- Compare Bethanie and BethanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBethanie peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bethanie since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Bethanie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Bethanie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.