girls:
5.1k births since 1890
#2357 (59th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1891
#3583 (22nd percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1890
#3456 (55th percentile)
The name Bethel is the #3,456 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,144 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 55.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,357 (58.8% percentile) for all time with 5,134 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #3,583 (21.8% percentile) for all time with 1,010 births since 1891.
Bethel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for girls and 1891 for boys). Birth data for Bethel is available in 133 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (133 years for girls and 73 years for boys). 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.
The name Bethel has been given predominantly to girls, with 83.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bethel were girls.
For girls, Bethel reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 19.0% percentile (ranked #484) with 95 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 103 births per million (ranked 18.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bethel ranks #910 for girls (3.9% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 23.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bethel reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #501) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 68 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bethel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bethel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.0% confident that Bethel is pronounced as BEH-thuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-thehl, at 13.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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