Bette — #8959 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Bette

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,889 babies named Bette between 1896 and 2024, spanning 129 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bette currently holds the #8959 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 1,736 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bette performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 13,273 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Bette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 2,727 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bette in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bette 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 34,889 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.