girls:
22.9k births since 1883
#942 (84th percentile)
boys:
47 births since 1930
#4539 (1st percentile)
overall:
23k births since 1883
#1672 (78th percentile)
The name Bettye is the #1,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,966 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 78.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #942 (83.5% percentile) for all time with 22,919 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,539 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1930.
Bettye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1930 for boys). Birth data for Bettye is available in 102 out of the 116 years between 1883 and 1998 (102 years for girls and 8 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 Bettye has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bettye reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 62.8% percentile (ranked #221) with 644 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 729 births per million (ranked 62.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
For boys, Bettye reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #522) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1942.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bettye".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Bettye is pronounced as BEH-tee, which has 2 syllables.
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