Betina
Betina was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,545 among girls’ names; 1,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Betina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Betina mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Betina is “a female given name, variant of Bettina”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Betina?
#9,545 among girls’ names, 2025
Betina rose from #16,865 in 2015 to #9,545 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.2 per million.
49 babies in 1973, the peak
Betina peaked in 1973, when 49 girls were given it, #1,774 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,545 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,404 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,683 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,726 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,099 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,865 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,950 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,804 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,765 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,446 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #16,124 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,778 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,708 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,672 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,697 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,695 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,421 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,000 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,308 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,673 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,042 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,472 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,572 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,961 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,021 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,569 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,346 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 35 | #2,589 | 21.8 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,686 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,617 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,102 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,233 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,687 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,774 | 33.6 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,230 | 22.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,604 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,583 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,524 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,889 | 24.4 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,080 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,646 | 27.2 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,066 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,308 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,257 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,043 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,678 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,372 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,266 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,239 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,328 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,936 | 5.0 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,504 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,508 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,719 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,474 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Betina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Betina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Betina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Betina, and how old are they?
An estimated 935 Americans named Betina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 44 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,332 people named Betina (1,331 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 930 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,874 babies since 1880, Betina is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 24 babies (42%), the most given that year.
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 Betina
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 Betina and names like it
- Compare Betina and BettinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBetina peaked in 1973.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Betina since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Betina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Betina.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Betina alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.