Bethel — #3633 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Bethel

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,176 babies named Bethel between 1890 and 2024, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bethel currently holds the #3633 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 119 babies received it in a single year. Bethel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,010 additional births since 1891.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bethel performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 977 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Bethel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 251 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Bethel in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bethel 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 5,176 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.