Betsy

Where Betsy comes from

From the clipping of Elizabeth + -sy (hypocoristic suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Betsy
  • Vowel-ended
Betsy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls, with 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1923
    Betsy Blair born
    American actress
  3. 1958
    Betsy DeVos born
    American politician and philanthropist
  4. 1959
    Peak, #228
    1,390 babies named Betsy, the most in any year.
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #393.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Namesakes
  • Betsy DeVos · American politician and philanthropist, born 1958
  • Betsy Blair · American actress, 1923–2009
  • Betsy Brandt · American actress, born 1973
  • Betsy Ross · American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag, 1752–1836
  • Betsy Russell · American actress, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.