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Bethy

Girls' name

Beth with the suffix -y

Bethy has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1975, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Bethy, 1975

1 in 503,000

Bethy over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bethy: meaning, origin, and history

Beth with the suffix -y

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bethy means

Bethy is formed from Beth with the suffix -y.

Origin, language, and formation

Bethy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Beth and Elizabeth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Bethy between 1960 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #6,454 in 1960.

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 Bethy?

Bethy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975
1 in 503,000
6 of 3,019,126 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1975
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,784 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bethy 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 1975 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 348,784 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bethy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bethys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bethy was born before 1975 — so the typical Bethy is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Bethy 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (6)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,454
1960

Spellings of Bethy

Bethy is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 45.1% against Bethy's <0.01%.

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.

Bethy around the world

Where Bethy 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.

  • France
    1975–2007
    #5,275
    in 2007

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Bethy 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
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Best rank ever
#6,454
1960
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bethy

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

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Sibling names for Bethy

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

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