girls:
159.3k births since 1884
#246 (96th percentile)
boys:
325 births since 1954
#4261 (7th percentile)
overall:
159.7k births since 1884
#474 (94th percentile)
The name Beth is the #474 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 159,658 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 93.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #246 (95.7% percentile) for all time with 159,333 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #4,261 (7.0% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1954.
Beth first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1954 for boys).
The name Beth has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Beth reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 91.9% percentile (ranked #65) with 3,233 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 3,416 births per million (ranked 91.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2018, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Beth ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Beth reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #633) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beth".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Beth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Beth is pronounced as behth, which has 1 syllables.
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