Bethanie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bethanie

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,725 babies named Bethanie between 1950 and 2023, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bethanie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 131 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bethanie performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,145 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Bethanie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 309 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Bethanie in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bethanie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,725 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.