Bethanny — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bethanny

The Social Security Administration has registered 239 babies named Bethanny between 1982 and 2018, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bethanny currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bethanny performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 87 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Bethanny shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bethanny in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bethanny 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 239 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.