Bethyl

girls:

55 births since 1918

#5661 (1st percentile)

overall:

55 births since 1918

#7684 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Bethyl is the #7,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1918.

Bethyl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for girls in 1918). Birth data for Bethyl is available in 8 out of the 49 years between 1918 and 1966. 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, Bethyl reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1966.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bethyl".

1918 1966 19181966

Key Statistics

Total Births
55
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
1927
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
1.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#596
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Bethyl

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Bethyl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 54.5% confident that Bethyl is pronounced as BEH-thuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-thihl, at 29.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.

BEH-thuhl (2 syllables)
54.5% confidence
B EH1 TH AH0 L
BEH-thihl (2 syllables)
29.5% confidence
B EH1 TH IH0 L
BEE-thuhl (2 syllables)
9.1% confidence
B IY1 TH AH0 L
BEH-theel (2 syllables)
6.8% confidence
B EH1 TH IY0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 TH AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

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