girls:
6.5k births since 1903
#2056 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1903
#3365 (57th percentile)
The name Bettina is the #3,365 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,466 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 56.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,056 (64.0% percentile) for all time with 6,466 births since 1903.
Bettina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (first recorded for girls in 1903). Birth data for Bettina is available in 119 out of the 121 years between 1903 and 2023. 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, Bettina reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 23.8% percentile (ranked #577) with 105 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 105 births per million (ranked 23.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bettina ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bettina".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bettina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.8% confident that Bettina is pronounced as beh-TEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is buh-TEE-nuh, at 23.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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