girls:
3.7k births since 1950
#2834 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1950
#4498 (42nd percentile)
The name Bethanie is the #4,498 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,725 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 41.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,834 (50.4% percentile) for all time with 3,725 births since 1950.
Bethanie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950). Birth data for Bethanie is available in 71 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Bethanie reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 14.8% percentile (ranked #724) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 68 births per million (ranked 14.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bethanie ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 11.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bethanie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bethanie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Bethanie is pronounced as BEH-thuh-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is beh-THUH-nee, at 10.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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