Bette

Where Bette comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Bette.

  • Vowel-ended
Bette through the years
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1908
    Bette Davis born
    American actress
  3. 1923
    Peak, #148
    1,693 babies named Bette, its best rank.
  4. 1930
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #221.
  5. 1945
    Bette Midler born
    American singer and actress
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Bette Davis · American actress, 1908–1989
  • Bette Midler · American singer and actress, born 1945
  • Bette Nesmith Graham · Inventor, businesswoman, 1924–1980
  • Bette Korber · American computational biologist, born 1950
  • Bette Ford · American actress, born 1927

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.