Betania

#15,305 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Bethany

Betania has been given to 376 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #15,305 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Betania, 2025

1 in 663,000

Betania over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Betania: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bethany

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Betania means

Betania is a form of Bethany.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Betania is used in Spanish (Latin American).

Another recorded pronunciation is /be.ˈta.nja/ for Betania.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Betania → Bethany → Βηθανία. The family’s proposed meaning is “house of Anaiah”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements עַנְיָה.

Origin, language, and formation

Betania is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bethany.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Betania is pronounced /beˈtanja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 376 girls were recorded with the name Betania between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2017; its best national rank was #3,641 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,480 in 2020 to #15,305 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,068 in 2015 to #15,305 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Betania?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #15,305; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Betania sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Betania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Betanias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Betania was born before 2012 — so the typical Betania is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 82.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 376; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Betania rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −4,902; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −6,825; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −7,237; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.36×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 11.9%; Peak was 2017 (42)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,641; 2017

Spellings of Betania

Betania is not the most common spelling — Tania is, with 71.5% against Betania's 0.93%.

Tania71.5%28,891
Bethanie9.2%3,733
Melania8.8%3,573
Bethani2.5%1,020
Betina2.5%1,016
Natania1.8%718
Titania1.3%545
Netanya1.3%519

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Betania is used

Across 1910–2025, Betania was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,178,904 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Betania has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Betania around the world

Where Betania ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2010–2023
#5,688
in 2023
France
2021–2022
#4,560
in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Betania by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #15,305
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 6,825
Best rank ever: #3,641; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 42 that year
First recorded: 1983
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 376
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Betania

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Bethania Betzabe Betsabe Malania Betzabeth Bethsaida Selenia Betsaida Betheny Titania Bethlehem Betina Bethene Bethenia Natania Bettyjo Bethzy Yasenia Adonia Betzaida Betselot Dannia Bethani Ivannia

Sibling names for Betania

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Shyann Halie Allyssa Sydni Sydnie Karleigh

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Caesar Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn

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