Bettie

Where Bettie comes from

From Beth + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bettie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1860
    Bettie Freshwater Pool born
    American writer, poet, and teacher
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #138 among girls — 113 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #131
    136 babies named Bettie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1890
    Bettie Wilson born
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,312.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Namesakes
  • Bettie Wilson · 1890–2006
  • Bettie Sue Masters · American biochemist
  • Bettie Freshwater Pool · American writer, poet, and teacher, 1860–1928
  • Bettie de Jong · dancer, born 1933
  • Bettie du Toit · South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, 1910–2002

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.