Bethanne
Bethanne was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 1,263 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Bethanne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 44 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bethanne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bethanne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,948, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1964, the peak
Bethanne peaked in 1964, when 61 girls were given it, #1,443 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #17,948 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,445 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,466 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,746 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,366 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,586 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,653 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,113 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,764 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,738 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 19 | #5,015 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,126 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,512 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,387 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,565 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,327 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,872 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,992 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,138 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,622 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,563 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,495 | 22.4 |
| 1981 | 29 | #2,993 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,805 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,435 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,207 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,219 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,338 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,619 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,840 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,569 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,531 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,113 | 23.4 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,758 | 29.2 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,172 | 20.2 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,777 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,884 | 23.6 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,570 | 30.1 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,623 | 27.2 |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,443 | 32.2 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,754 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,116 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,613 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,199 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,397 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,585 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,716 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,629 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,399 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #3,998 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,622 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,521 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,298 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,778 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,304 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,014 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,159 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bethanne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bethanne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bethanne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bethanne, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 1,263 Americans ever recorded as Bethanne. The median Bethanne alive today is 53 years old; half are between 44 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,603 people named Bethanne (1,603 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,184 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% 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 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 262 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 542 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 289 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 53 |
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 Bethanne born?
The states with the most babies named Bethanne are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 87% 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 | 209 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| New York | 86 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 50 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 11 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Bethanne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bethanne is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1944 it was given 3.1 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 Bethanne 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,423 babies since 1880, Bethanne is the third most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 370 babies recorded by SSA was a Bethanne (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 Bethanne
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 Bethanne and names like it
- Compare Bethanne and BethanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBethanne peaked in 1964.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bethanne since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Bethanne.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bethanne alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.