Bettylou
Bettylou was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 1,390 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bettylou by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bettylou?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,794, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
81 babies in 1927, the peak
Bettylou peaked in 1927, when 81 girls were given it, #811 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #14,794 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,090 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,621 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,855 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,938 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,288 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,565 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,803 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,048 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,175 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 16 | #2,932 | 7.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,902 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,696 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,980 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,576 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,050 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,056 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,013 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,982 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,661 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,588 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,453 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,578 | 20.3 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,327 | 27.2 |
| 1942 | 40 | #1,268 | 29.6 |
| 1941 | 43 | #1,134 | 35.6 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,242 | 30.6 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,195 | 33.7 |
| 1938 | 53 | #973 | 48.0 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,197 | 33.8 |
| 1936 | 29 | #1,348 | 27.9 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,223 | 32.4 |
| 1934 | 48 | #994 | 46.0 |
| 1933 | 42 | #1,076 | 41.7 |
| 1932 | 51 | #989 | 47.8 |
| 1931 | 43 | #1,076 | 40.4 |
| 1930 | 58 | #957 | 51.5 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,175 | 35.8 |
| 1928 | 61 | #955 | 52.9 |
| 1927 | 81 | #811 | 67.9 |
| 1926 | 64 | #931 | 54.0 |
| 1925 | 46 | #1,138 | 37.8 |
| 1924 | 74 | #870 | 59.3 |
| 1923 | 35 | #1,328 | 29.0 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,468 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,773 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,181 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,030 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,298 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,149 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,973 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bettylou a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bettylou has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bettylou: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bettylou, and how old are they?
An estimated 385 Americans named Bettylou and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 74 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,651 people named Bettylou (1,648 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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 1,526 babies since 1880, Bettylou is the most given (91% 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 Bettylou
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Bettylou and names like it
- Compare Bettylou and BettyleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBettylou peaked in 1927.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bettylou since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Bettylou.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Bettylou alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.