Bettie
Bettie was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,546 among girls’ names; 38,478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,100 Americans named Bettie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 71 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bettie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bettie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bettie is “a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.”
From Beth + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bettie?
#9,546 among girls’ names, 2025
Bettie rose from #11,030 in 2015 to #9,546 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.2 per million.
1,233 babies in 1924, the peak
Bettie peaked in 1924, when 1,233 babies were given it (1,228 girls, #183 among girls’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,546 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,532 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,565 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,795 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,064 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,661 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,846 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,696 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,109 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,030 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (143)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,037 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,653 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,273 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,159 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,790 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,974 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,592 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,637 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,711 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,996 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,448 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,280 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,221 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,867 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,587 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,360 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,225 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,962 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,552 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,479 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,355 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,529 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,695 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,300 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,208 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,645 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,985 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,363 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,362 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,517 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,154 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,934 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,912 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,688 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,560 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,176 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,312 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,711 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,721 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 66 | #1,441 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,418 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,400 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,313 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 75 | #1,242 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 100 | #1,082 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 118 | #987 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 145 | #896 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 174 | #775 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 229 | #663 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 205 | #689 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 272 | #585 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 246 | #610 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 279 | #547 | 0.14 |
| 1954 | 321 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1953 | 326 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1952 | 371 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 490 | #362 | 0.27 |
| 1950 | 437 | #386 | 0.26 |
| 1949 | 538 | #336 | 0.31 |
| 1948 | 616 | #308 | 0.36 |
| 1947 | 649 | #307 | 0.37 |
| 1946 | 679 | #282 | 0.43 |
| 1945 | 691 | #255 | 0.53 |
| 1944 | 719 | #251 | 0.54 |
| 1943 | 782 | #245 | 0.56 |
| 1942 | 724 | #256 | 0.54 |
| 1941 | 732 | #235 | 0.61 |
| 1940 | 747 | #225 | 0.65 |
| 1939 | 776 | #214 | 0.71 |
| 1938 | 869 | #201 | 0.79 |
| 1937 | 762 | #218 | 0.72 |
| 1936 | 825 | #203 | 0.79 |
| 1935 | 831 | #205 | 0.79 |
| 1934 | 916 | #196 | 0.88 |
| 1933 | 921 | #185 | 0.91 |
| 1932 | 999 | #183 | 0.94 |
| 1931 | 1,032 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1930 | 1,005 | #191 | 0.89 |
| 1929 | 1,029 | #190 | 0.92 |
| 1928 | 1,098 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 1927 | 1,072 | #190 | 0.90 |
| 1926 | 1,183 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 1925 | 1,204 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1924 | 1,228 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 1923 | 1,058 | #197 | 0.88 |
| 1922 | 868 | #219 | 0.72 |
| 1921 | 818 | #228 | 0.66 |
| 1920 | 777 | #232 | 0.65 |
| 1919 | 608 | #259 | 0.54 |
| 1918 | 522 | #273 | 0.45 |
| 1917 | 447 | #291 | 0.41 |
| 1916 | 339 | #332 | 0.32 |
| 1915 | 347 | #317 | 0.35 |
| 1914 | 256 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1913 | 216 | #325 | 0.35 |
| 1912 | 191 | #327 | 0.34 |
| 1911 | 153 | #316 | 0.37 |
| 1910 | 166 | #300 | 0.42 |
| 1909 | 137 | #312 | 0.39 |
| 1908 | 130 | #311 | 0.39 |
| 1907 | 157 | #278 | 0.49 |
| 1906 | 110 | #317 | 0.37 |
| 1905 | 128 | #294 | 0.44 |
| 1904 | 155 | #252 | 0.56 |
| 1903 | 123 | #282 | 0.47 |
| 1902 | 145 | #259 | 0.55 |
| 1901 | 111 | #281 | 0.46 |
| 1900 | 167 | #250 | 0.56 |
| 1899 | 135 | #239 | 0.58 |
| 1898 | 150 | #240 | 0.58 |
| 1897 | 138 | #239 | 0.59 |
| 1896 | 125 | #255 | 0.53 |
| 1895 | 133 | #239 | 0.57 |
| 1894 | 118 | #250 | 0.53 |
| 1893 | 129 | #230 | 0.61 |
| 1892 | 155 | #202 | 0.73 |
| 1891 | 138 | #194 | 0.74 |
| 1890 | 136 | #204 | 0.71 |
| 1889 | 144 | #188 | 0.81 |
| 1888 | 169 | #172 | 0.95 |
| 1887 | 117 | #183 | 0.80 |
| 1886 | 141 | #164 | 1.0 |
| 1885 | 127 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1884 | 118 | #164 | 0.91 |
| 1883 | 130 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1882 | 136 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 1881 | 103 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1880 | 113 | #138 | 1.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bettie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bettie has been given almost only to girls: 83 boys in 143 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bettie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bettie, and how old are they?
10,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 26% of the 38,478 Americans ever recorded as Bettie. The median Bettie alive today is 79 years old; half are between 71 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 12,043 people named Bettie (12,020 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,962 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4,220 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,610 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 624 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 156 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Bettie born?
The states with the most babies named Bettie are North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 3,792 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 3,217 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Mississippi | 2,713 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Alabama | 2,149 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 1,825 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 1,635 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Kentucky | 1,328 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 1,206 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,156 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 1,067 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Bettie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bettie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bettie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,102,267 babies since 1880, Bettie is the second most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 230 babies (4.3%), again the second most given.
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 Bettie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Louetta | 1,548 | |
| Dot | 1,392 | |
| Martha | 553,732 | |
| Harriet | 90,427 | |
| Georgianna | 9,317 |
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 Bettie and names like it
- Compare Bettie and BettyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBettie peaked in 1924.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bettie since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Bettie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bettie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.