Betty

girls:

1M births since 1880

#14 (100th percentile)

boys:

3.6k births since 1904

#2062 (55th percentile)

overall:

1M births since 1880

#42 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,000,753
Peak Births
38,237
Peak Year
1928
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.8%
Current Percentile
20.6%
Peak Rank
#2
Current Rank
#752
Female statistics
Total Births
3,619
Peak Births
170
Peak Year
1934
First Recorded
1904
Peak Percentile
30.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#234
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Betty

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Betty. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Betty is pronounced as BEH-tee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Betty. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Betty, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BEE-dee (2 syllables)
6 names 869 births
B IY1 D IY0
BEE-tee (2 syllables)
3 names 738 births
B IY1 T IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 T 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.