Bethanny
Bethanny was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 239 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bethanny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bethanny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,078, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2011, the peak
Bethanny peaked in 2011, when 20 girls were given it, #6,370 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,078 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,621 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,033 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,059 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,376 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,272 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,370 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,452 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,615 | 4.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,803 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #11,995 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,764 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,111 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,381 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,149 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,953 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,473 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,277 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,529 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,188 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,146 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,677 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,692 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,580 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,199 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,587 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,425 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,339 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bethanny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bethanny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bethanny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bethanny, and how old are they?
An estimated 236 Americans named Bethanny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Bethanny (283 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 236 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Bethanny?
Bethanny is a less common spelling of Bethany: SSA has recorded 239 Bethanny and 101,086 Bethany since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 108,470 babies since 1880, Bethanny is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 370 babies recorded by SSA was a Bethanny (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 Bethanny
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 Bethanny and names like it
- Compare Bethanny and BethanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBethanny peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bethanny since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Bethanny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bethanny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.