Bethania

Girls' name

Form of Bethany

Bethania has been given to 229 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Bethania, 2024

1 in 557,000

Bethania 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bethania: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Bethany

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bethania means

Bethania is a form of Bethany.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bethania is used in Spanish (Latin American).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bethany.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 229 girls were recorded with the name Bethania between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2017; its best national rank was #6,851 in 2017.

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.

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How common is Bethania?

Bethania had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bethania 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bethania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bethanias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bethania was born before 2014 — so the typical Bethania is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 55.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 93.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 229; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 55.5% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Bethania 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2017 (17)
Years since peak: 8; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,851; 2017

Spellings of Bethania

Bethania is not the most common spelling — Bethany is, with 89.6% against Bethania's 0.20%.

Bethany89.6%100,902
Bethanie3.3%3,733
Bethann2.5%2,834
Thania1.3%1,426
Bethanne1.1%1,263
Bethani0.91%1,020
Bethaney0.56%632
Nathania0.51%574

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 Bethania is used

Across 1910–2025, Bethania was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 481,315 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Maryland1 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. Bethania has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bethania by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,851; 2017
Peak year: 2017; 17 that year
First recorded: 1969
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 229
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bethania

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

Betania Bethenia Betzabe Betselot Bethsaida Betzabeth Bethanny Betsaida Bethanee Bethlehem Betzayda Bettylee Bettymae Betzaida Bethene Betheny Nathania Betzaira Bethenny Bethaney Yasenia Betsabe Malania Bethzaida

Sibling names for Bethania

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

Raylee Aubrielle Harleigh Kinslee Aminah Spencer Adelia Emmeline

For a brother

Linus Arvin Titan Ramsey Kalvin Ishmael Nixon Kyree

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