girls:
100.1k births since 1915
#366 (94th percentile)
boys:
184 births since 1970
#4402 (4th percentile)
overall:
100.3k births since 1915
#680 (91st percentile)
The name Bethany is the #680 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 100,326 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 91.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #366 (93.6% percentile) for all time with 100,142 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,402 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 184 births since 1970.
Bethany first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1970 for boys).
The name Bethany has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bethany reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 89.3% percentile (ranked #88) with 1,670 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 1,758 births per million (ranked 89.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bethany ranks #584 for girls (38.4% percentile) with 222 births per million, which is 12.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bethany reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #743) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bethany".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bethany is pronounced as BEH-thuh-nee, which has 3 syllables.
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