Bettina
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1965 · 192 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,482since 1903
Bettina over time
Rank among girls' names. Bettina has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,658 | 42 |
| 1988 | #1,986 | 60 |
| 1987 | #1,678 | 72 |
| 1986 | #1,736 | 67 |
| 1985 | #1,382 | 93 |
| 1984 | #1,255 | 102 |
| 1983 | #1,183 | 110 |
| 1982 | #1,107 | 127 |
| 1981 | #937 | 159 |
| 1980 | #948 | 158 |
| 1979 | #966 | 149 |
| 1978 | #992 | 139 |
| 1977 | #1,468 | 75 |
| 1976 | #1,252 | 89 |
| 1975 | #1,350 | 79 |
| 1974 | #1,124 | 103 |
| 1973 | #980 | 121 |
| 1972 | #982 | 122 |
| 1971 | #1,026 | 120 |
| 1970 | #1,042 | 118 |
| 1969 | #1,054 | 108 |
| 1968 | #746 | 176 |
| 1967 | #826 | 147 |
| 1966 | #800 | 153 |
| 1965 | #714 | 192 |
| 1964 | #808 | 167 |
| 1963 | #749 | 189 |
| 1962 | #806 | 168 |
| 1961 | #809 | 168 |
| 1960 | #776 | 173 |
| 1959 | #997 | 112 |
| 1958 | #961 | 115 |
| 1957 | #863 | 139 |
| 1956 | #888 | 126 |
| 1955 | #1,099 | 83 |
| 1954 | #1,093 | 81 |
| 1953 | #1,261 | 59 |
| 1952 | #1,210 | 62 |
| 1951 | #1,183 | 62 |
| 1950 | #1,099 | 70 |
| 1949 | #1,135 | 64 |
| 1948 | #1,173 | 59 |
| 1947 | #958 | 86 |
| 1946 | #997 | 71 |
| 1945 | #925 | 67 |
| 1944 | #1,029 | 58 |
| 1943 | #1,228 | 43 |
| 1942 | #1,387 | 34 |
| 1941 | #1,538 | 26 |
| 1940 | #1,404 | 29 |
| 1939 | #1,638 | 22 |
| 1938 | #1,873 | 18 |
| 1937 | #1,416 | 27 |
| 1936 | #1,873 | 17 |
| 1935 | #2,006 | 16 |
| 1934 | #1,481 | 25 |
| 1933 | #1,470 | 25 |
| 1932 | #1,346 | 30 |
| 1931 | #1,421 | 27 |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 |
| 1929 | #1,766 | 21 |
| 1928 | #1,738 | 23 |
| 1927 | #2,169 | 17 |
| 1926 | #1,357 | 34 |
| 1925 | #2,119 | 18 |
| 1924 | #1,679 | 26 |
| 1923 | #1,672 | 25 |
| 1922 | #1,508 | 30 |
| 1921 | #1,668 | 26 |
| 1920 | #1,550 | 28 |
| 1919 | #1,745 | 22 |
| 1918 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1917 | #1,552 | 24 |
| 1916 | #1,210 | 35 |
| 1915 | #1,153 | 35 |
| 1914 | #1,059 | 32 |
| 1913 | #1,120 | 24 |
| 1912 | #1,297 | 17 |
| 1911 | #1,656 | 9 |
| 1910 | #1,110 | 16 |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 |
| 1908 | #1,547 | 8 |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,298 | 9 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bettina! It came in at #1,792, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1903–1904, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bettina is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,196 · 1 in 12,887
- New York#1,406 · 1 in 15,981
- California#1,568 · 1 in 19,556
Best ever in a state: #207 in Massachusetts, 1910.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,196 | 10 | 1 in 12,887 |
| New York | #1,406 | 7 | 1 in 15,981 |
| California | #1,568 | 11 | 1 in 19,556 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bettina
- 5,186 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #10,107)
- 983 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,107)
- 4,375 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 476 spots in 1978 (#1,468 → #992)
- Biggest drop: 308 spots in 1969 (#746 → #1,054)
- Debuted 1903
- Peaked 1965 at #714 (192 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1956–1968
- Highest: 1 in 9,194 girls born in 1965 were named Bettina (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.3% of all girls named Bettina (1,641) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 36 | #1,298 (1905) | #1,613 |
| 1910s | 248 | #1,059 (1914) | #1,320 |
| 1920s | 248 | #1,357 (1926) | #1,723 |
| 1930s | 224 | #1,346 (1932) | #1,655 |
| 1940s | 537 | #925 (1945) | #1,177 |
| 1950s | 909 | #863 (1957) | #1,065 |
| 1960s | 1,641 | #714 (1965) | #809 |
| 1970s | 1,115 | #966 (1979) | #1,118 |
| 1980s | 990 | #937 (1981) | #1,487 |
| 1990s | 249 | #2,620 (1991) | #4,642 |
| 2000s | 132 | #5,570 (2001) | #8,965 |
| 2010s | 103 | #7,031 (2013) | #10,609 |
| 2020s | 50 | #8,464 (2021) | #11,252 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bettina in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 24,148 of them was named Bettina, which outranked 87.3% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,662Shaunna73
- #1,662Tamisha73
- #1,662Winter73
- #1,678Bettina72
- #1,678Adela72
- #1,678Adilene72
- #1,678Blythe72
- #1,699Agnes71
- #1,699Alysse71
- #1,699Britani71
Tied with 20 names at #1,678; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.