Betsie
Betsie was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 211 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Betsie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Betsie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Betsie is “a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Betsie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,637, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1980, the peak
Betsie peaked in 1980, when 11 girls were given it, #5,946 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,637 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,961 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,388 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,200 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,003 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,486 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,413 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,935 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,428 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,340 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #6,371 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,946 | 6.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,656 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,543 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,628 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,014 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,896 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,055 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,180 | 4.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,854 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,895 | 4.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,455 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,613 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,461 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,155 | 2.4 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,799 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,064 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,402 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,519 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,686 | 3.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,427 | 4.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,495 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Betsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Betsie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Betsie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Betsie, and how old are they?
An estimated 176 Americans named Betsie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 42 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 364 people named Betsie (364 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 51,811 babies since 1880, Betsie is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 63 babies recorded by SSA was a Betsie (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.
More about Betsie and names like it
- Compare Betsie and BetsyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBetsie peaked in 1980.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Betsie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Betsie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.