How rare is the name Bettie?

12,043 people in the United States have the first name Bettie, about 1 in 25,079. It ranks #2,189 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BETTIE

#2,189

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,043
About
1 in 25,079
This common or more
78.9%
Who bears it

Of the 12,043 people named Bettie, 57.6% reported their origin as White, 37.8% as Black and 2.1% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Bettie peaked in 1924, when 1,233 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1924
Births that year
1,233
In 2025*
10 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 38,478 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Bettie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #268. The largest share of babies named Bettie, 40.3%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#2681,298
1890s#3541,357
1900s#4331,363
1910s#5413,245
1920s#35410,362
1930s#3698,977
1940s#5006,887
1950s#9143,181
1960s#1,833969
1970s#3,905322
1980s#6,933175
1990s#14,64782
2000s#17,62888
2010s#16,077107
2020s#15,36865
Before 19017.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2732.9%
Silent Generation 1928–4540.3%
Baby boom 1946–6416.4%
Generation X 1965–801.8%
Millennials 1981–960.5%
Generation Z 1997–120.4%
2013 and later0.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Bettie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bettie has been most common in Mississippi (6.7×), North Carolina (4.1×), and Alabama (3.7×), and least common in New Jersey (0.13×).

31,615 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Bettie

#2,187 Isis · 12,086#2,188 Cari · 12,068#2,190 Annabella · 12,034#2,191 Nasir · 12,030

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Bettie, most common first.

#2,123 Bette · 12,626#2,747 Bettye · 8,510#16,702 Betti · 671

Also a last name

As a last name, Bettie ranks #153,590 of 156,621, with 104 people. See Bettie as a last name

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