Bethann
Bethann was last recorded in 2023, when 9 babies were given it; 2,834 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Bethann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 43 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bethann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bethann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,446, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
116 babies in 1967, the peak
Bethann peaked in 1967, when 116 girls were given it, #946 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 9 | #10,446 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,378 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,635 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,353 | 4.3 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,010 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,292 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,698 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,779 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,802 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,234 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 9 | #10,816 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,110 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,279 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,456 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,256 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,225 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,154 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,520 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,307 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,107 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,357 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,014 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,747 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,343 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,694 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,767 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,444 | 24.7 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,575 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,029 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,811 | 36.0 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,887 | 33.3 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,161 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,852 | 34.3 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,642 | 42.0 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,704 | 39.8 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,625 | 43.0 |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,546 | 46.3 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,562 | 45.0 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,679 | 39.6 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,562 | 43.9 |
| 1974 | 77 | #1,352 | 52.5 |
| 1973 | 74 | #1,351 | 50.7 |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,502 | 41.4 |
| 1971 | 83 | #1,305 | 49.9 |
| 1970 | 90 | #1,238 | 51.5 |
| 1969 | 111 | #1,037 | 65.8 |
| 1968 | 102 | #1,028 | 62.2 |
| 1967 | 116 | #946 | 70.3 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,179 | 48.5 |
| 1965 | 110 | #989 | 62.3 |
| 1964 | 106 | #1,051 | 55.9 |
| 1963 | 96 | #1,116 | 49.8 |
| 1962 | 90 | #1,152 | 45.8 |
| 1961 | 84 | #1,203 | 41.6 |
| 1960 | 64 | #1,375 | 31.7 |
| 1959 | 49 | #1,553 | 24.2 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,606 | 21.9 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,033 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,628 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,108 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,523 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,238 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,680 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,120 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,785 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,641 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,600 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,267 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,031 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,101 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,756 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,402 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bethann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bethann 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 Bethann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bethann, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,834 Americans ever recorded as Bethann. The median Bethann alive today is 53 years old; half are between 43 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 3,919 people named Bethann (3,917 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,627 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 596 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,210 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 606 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 122 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 44 |
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 Bethann born?
The states with the most babies named Bethann are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 653 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| New York | 259 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 224 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Michigan | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 84 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 80 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Bethann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bethann is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1938 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Bethann with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,923 babies since 1880, Bethann is the most given (97% 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 Bethann
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 Bethann and names like it
- Compare Bethann and BethanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBethann peaked in 1967.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bethann since 1910.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Bethann.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bethann alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.