Bettylou
Last seen for girls in 2015 at #14,482
- Peak · girls
- 1927 · 81 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,390since 1916
Bettylou over time
Rank among girls' names. Bettylou has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #4,031 | 10 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #2,053 | 22 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 |
| 1947 | #1,661 | 33 |
| 1946 | #1,583 | 31 |
| 1945 | #1,450 | 31 |
| 1944 | #1,578 | 27 |
| 1943 | #1,327 | 38 |
| 1942 | #1,264 | 40 |
| 1941 | #1,133 | 43 |
| 1940 | #1,242 | 35 |
| 1939 | #1,194 | 37 |
| 1938 | #972 | 53 |
| 1937 | #1,196 | 36 |
| 1936 | #1,345 | 29 |
| 1935 | #1,219 | 34 |
| 1934 | #993 | 48 |
| 1933 | #1,076 | 42 |
| 1932 | #989 | 51 |
| 1931 | #1,074 | 43 |
| 1930 | #956 | 58 |
| 1929 | #1,174 | 40 |
| 1928 | #954 | 61 |
| 1927 | #810 | 81 |
| 1926 | #931 | 64 |
| 1925 | #1,136 | 46 |
| 1924 | #868 | 74 |
| 1923 | #1,327 | 35 |
| 1922 | #1,464 | 31 |
| 1921 | #1,765 | 24 |
| 1920 | #2,172 | 17 |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 |
| 1918 | #2,289 | 15 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bettylou! It came in at #3,919, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1956, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bettylou is popular in 1944
No state had 5 or more girls named Bettylou in 1944, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Bettylou
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
- Biggest jump: 459 spots in 1924 (#1,327 → #868)
- Biggest drop: 268 spots in 1925 (#868 → #1,136)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1927 at #810 (81 births)
- Births halved by 1929, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1926–1928
- Highest: 1 in 14,721 girls born in 1927 were named Bettylou (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 297,516 girls born in 2015 (0.00%)
- 34.0% of all girls named Bettylou (473) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 37 | #2,289 (1918) | #3,324 |
| 1920s | 473 | #810 (1927) | #1,260 |
| 1930s | 431 | #956 (1930) | #1,101 |
| 1940s | 302 | #1,133 (1941) | #1,721 |
| 1950s | 92 | #2,053 (1950) | #4,124 |
| 1960s | 49 | #4,263 (1962) | #5,546 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 6 | #14,482 (2015) | #14,482 |
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.
Bettylou in 1944
Top girls' names in 1944
More about 1944
girls
1,327,223 girls got a published name in 1944; 1 in 49,156 of them was named Bettylou, which outranked 69.9% of the 5,243 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,545Vernita28
- #1,545Wonda28
- #1,545Zula28
- #1,578Bettylou27
- #1,578Annalee27
- #1,578Charlesetta27
- #1,578Charyl27
- #1,609Adella26
- #1,609Aloha26
- #1,609Arlean26
Tied with 30 names at #1,578; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.