Betty Girl
How popular is Betty?
#1,113 girl name in 2025
212 baby girls were named Betty in the US in 2025, making it the 1113th most popular girl name.
Betty popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,113 for girls (▼ 101 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 212 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+10% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,266 in 2015, #1,173 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1930 (38,240 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2 in 1928 (7 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Betty counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Betty family of names ranked #951 for girls in 2025 (#875 the year before), with 222 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Betty | 212 | 95% |
| Bettie | 10 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Betty is most popular
Babies named Betty per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Missouri: 0.4 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Utah: 0.3 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.3 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- Ohio: 0.2 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (32 girls)
Betty by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,519 | #136 |
| 1890s | 3,196 | #119 |
| 1900s | 7,921 | #72 |
| 1910s | 44,894 | #15 |
| 1920s | 283,096 | #2 |
| 1930s | 300,409 | #2 |
| 1940s | 194,623 | #5 |
| 1950s | 103,204 | #26 |
| 1960s | 38,397 | #68 |
| 1970s | 11,708 | #169 |
| 1980s | 5,163 | #354 |
| 1990s | 2,638 | #571 |
| 2000s | 1,446 | #1,148 |
| 2010s | 1,744 | #1,130 |
| 2020s | 1,280 | #1,012 |
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Questions
- Is Betty a boy or girl name?
- Betty is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Betty were girls.
- How popular is the name Betty?
- 212 baby girls were named Betty in the US in 2025, making it the 1113th most popular girl name.
- When was Betty most popular?
- Betty peaked in 1930, when 38,240 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2, held for 7 years starting in 1928.
- How many people are named Betty?
- 1,004,857 babies have been named Betty in the US since 1880. We estimate about 353,311 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 80.
- Where is Betty most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Betty was most common in Missouri, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.