Betta
Betta was last recorded in 1956, when 7 babies were given it; 78 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Betta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Betta mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Betta is “a diminutive of the female given name Elisabetta”
/ˈbet.ta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Betta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,870, in 1956; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1919, the peak
Betta peaked in 1919, when 8 girls were given it, #3,499 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 7 | #4,870 | 3.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,092 | 3.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,258 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,790 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,488 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,800 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,907 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,700 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,160 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,684 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 8 | #3,702 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,499 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Betta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Betta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Betta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Betta, and how old are they?
An estimated 14 Americans named Betta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 116 people named Betta (111 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,103,223 babies since 1880, Betta is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 230 babies recorded by SSA was a Betta (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 Betta and names like it
- Compare Betta and BettyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBetta peaked in 1919.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Betta: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Betta.
- Names starting with BMost given first.