Bettye
Bettye is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 220th, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1933763 births
- Best rank
- #220in 1933
- Since 1883
- 22,920people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,920 girls have been named Bettye in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1933, with 763 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 763 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1930s alone account for 31%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bettye | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 37 | |
| 1900s | 93 | |
| 1910s | 550 | |
| 1920s | 4,629 | |
| 1930s | 7,051 | |
| 1940s | 6,979 | |
| 1950s | 2,803 | |
| 1960s | 527 | |
| 1970s | 132 | |
| 1980s | 71 | |
| 1990s | 38 |
In 1933, its biggest year
Bettye was the 220th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1933 were Mary, Betty, Barbara, Dorothy and Joan. See all of 1933.
Names that rose and fell with Bettye
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jerlinepeak 1940
- Gearldinepeak 1935
- Arlyspeak 1933
- Merilynpeak 1946
- Beverleypeak 1938
- Delorespeak 1932
- Maralynpeak 1938
- Delorispeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.