Bethann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bethann has been given to 2,834 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1967, with 116 recorded.
Babies named Bethann, 2023
1 in 368,000
Bethann over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bethann?
Bethann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 178,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,294 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bethann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bethann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bethanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bethann was born before 1971 — so the typical Bethann is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 33.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,776
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (961).
Is Bethann 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1967 (116)
- Years since peak
- 58
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Bethann
Bethann is not the most common spelling — Bethany is, with 81.7% against Bethann's 2.3%.
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 Bethann is used
Across 1910–2025, Bethann was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 51,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
- 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
- 3Massachusetts1 in 50,000
- 4Michigan1 in 50,000
- 5New York1 in 50,000
- 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
- 7Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 8Ohio1 in 100,000
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. Bethann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bethann around the world
Where Bethann 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 & Wales2006–2006#5,061in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Bethann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bethann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Bethann
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bethann, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Bethann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.