Bethanne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bethanne has been given to 1,263 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1964, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Bethanne, 2008
1 in 786,000
Bethanne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bethanne?
Bethanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 378,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bethanne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bethanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bethannes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bethanne was born before 1972 — so the typical Bethanne is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 31.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,244
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (401).
Is Bethanne 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1964 (61)
- Years since peak
- 61
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.5% average annual change
Spellings of Bethanne
Bethanne is not the most common spelling — Bethany is, with 89.2% against Bethanne's 1.1%.
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 Bethanne is used
Across 1910–2025, Bethanne was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 123,456 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 2Connecticut1 in 100,000
- 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5Indiana1 in —
- 6Massachusetts1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Ohio1 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. Bethanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bethanne around the world
Where Bethanne 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 & Wales1996–1999#3,900in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Bethanne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bethanne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bethanne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.