girls:
34.9k births since 1896
#738 (87th percentile)
boys:
22 births since 1924
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
34.9k births since 1896
#1344 (83rd percentile)
The name Bette is the #1,344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,900 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 82.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #738 (87.1% percentile) for all time with 34,878 births since 1896. For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1924.
Bette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1924 for boys). Birth data for Bette is available in 114 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (114 years for girls and 4 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 Bette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bette reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 76.0% percentile (ranked #147) with 1,352 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 1,352 births per million (ranked 76.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Bette ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bette reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #530) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1940.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bette".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Bette is pronounced as beht, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-tee, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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