Bettye — girls' name

What the Data Says About Bettye

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,920 babies named Bettye between 1883 and 1998, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bettye currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1933, when 763 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bettye performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 7,051 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Bettye shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,264 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Tennessee and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Bettye in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bettye 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 22,920 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.