Betsey — girls' name

What the Data Says About Betsey

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,481 babies named Betsey between 1884 and 2022, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Betsey currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1942, when 62 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Betsey performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 495 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Betsey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and Connecticut. In total, SSA state-level files list Betsey in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Betsey 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 2,481 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.