How rare is the name Bettye?

8,510 people in the United States have the first name Bettye, about 1 in 35,491. It ranks #2,747 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BETTYE

#2,747

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,510
About
1 in 35,491
This common or more
80.7%
Who bears it

Of the 8,510 people named Bettye, 51% reported their origin as White, 46.4% as Black and 1.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Bettye peaked in 1933, when 763 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18831998
Peak year
1933
Births that year
763
In 1998
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 22,967 babies have been given the name since 1883. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Bettye by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #427. The largest share of babies named Bettye, 55.6%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#2,74510
1890s#2,43637
1900s#2,00893
1910s#1,482550
1920s#5704,629
1930s#4277,080
1940s#4936,997
1950s#9692,803
1960s#2,529527
1970s#6,981132
1980s#12,28671
1990s#21,32238
Before 19010.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2717%
Silent Generation 1928–4555.6%
Baby boom 1946–6425.5%
Generation X 1965–801.3%
Millennials 1981–960.4%
Generation Z 1997–120%

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

Where Bettye is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Bettye has been most common in Mississippi (8.6×), Alabama (6.6×), and Arkansas (6.1×), and least common in New York (0.03×).

20,805 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 Bettye

#2,745 Ronaldo · 8,530#2,746 Lenny · 8,511#2,748 Nikhil · 8,509#2,749 Dinah · 8,508

Spelled almost the same

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

#123 Betty · 382,966#2,123 Bette · 12,626#2,189 Bettie · 12,043

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