girls:
48.8k births since 1880
#586 (90th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1942
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
48.8k births since 1880
#1095 (86th percentile)
The name Betsy is the #1,095 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 48,812 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #586 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 48,802 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1942.
Betsy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1942 for boys).
The name Betsy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Betsy reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 70.5% percentile (ranked #227) with 669 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 669 births per million (ranked 70.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Betsy ranks #876 for girls (7.5% percentile) with 43 births per million, which is 6.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Betsy reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #551) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Betsy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Betsy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Betsy is pronounced as BEHT-see, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 T S IY0) 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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