Bettyjane
Bettyjane was last recorded in 1964, when 6 babies were given it; 788 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bettyjane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bettyjane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,073, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
79 babies in 1924, the peak
Bettyjane peaked in 1924, when 79 girls were given it, #845 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #6,073 | 3.2 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,815 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,622 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,049 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,781 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,914 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,464 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,692 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,478 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,214 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 10 | #3,057 | 7.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,424 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,545 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,536 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,307 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,753 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,685 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,043 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,590 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,099 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,556 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,692 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,950 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,463 | 24.9 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,492 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,596 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,239 | 33.5 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,184 | 35.4 |
| 1925 | 70 | #887 | 57.5 |
| 1924 | 79 | #845 | 63.3 |
| 1923 | 70 | #882 | 58.0 |
| 1922 | 55 | #1,010 | 45.8 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,517 | 24.3 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,897 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,832 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,054 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,761 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,848 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bettyjane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bettyjane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bettyjane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bettyjane, and how old are they?
An estimated 118 Americans named Bettyjane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 83 years old and half are between 79 and 89. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 950 people named Bettyjane (950 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.7 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 859 babies since 1880, Bettyjane is the most given (92% of them).
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 Bettyjane
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Leatrice | 5,864 |
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 Bettyjane and names like it
- Compare Bettyjane and BettejaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBettyjane peaked in 1924.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bettyjane since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Bettyjane.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Bettyjane alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.