girls:
38.4k births since 1880
#694 (88th percentile)
boys:
83 births since 1923
#4503 (2nd percentile)
overall:
38.5k births since 1880
#1270 (84th percentile)
The name Bettie is the #1,270 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38,456 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #694 (87.9% percentile) for all time with 38,373 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,503 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 1923.
Bettie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1923 for boys). Birth data for Bettie is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 14 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 Bettie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bettie reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 71.0% percentile (ranked #176) with 962 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 1,176 births per million (ranked 45.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bettie ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bettie reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #515) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bettie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bettie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bettie is pronounced as BEH-tee, which has 2 syllables.
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