Beto

#9,835 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Roberto or Alberto or Gilberto or Humberto

Beto has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #9,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Beto, 2025

1 in 474,000

Beto over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beto: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Roberto or Alberto or Gilberto or Humberto

Spanish

What Beto means

Beto is a diminutive of Roberto or Alberto or Gilberto or Humberto.

Origin, language, and formation

Beto is used in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Beto comes through Spanish Beto.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roberto, Alberto, Gilberto and Humberto.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Beto is pronounced /ˈbɛ.tu/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 boys were recorded with the name Beto between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1963; its best national rank was #3,071 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,769 in 2020 to #9,835 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,307 in 2015 to #9,835 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.

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How common is Beto?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #9,835; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Beto sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Betos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beto was born before 2011 — so the typical Beto is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 96; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Beto 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: +1,289; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +934; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +2,472; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.40×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 87.5%; Peak was 1963 (8)
Years since peak: 62; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,071; 1963

Spellings of Beto

Beto is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 25.5% against Beto's <0.01%.

Leo25.5%259,988
Seth16.3%165,793
Brett15.6%159,109
Ben8.4%85,349
Beau6.4%65,592
Pete4.3%43,530
Otto3.9%39,915
Bert3.3%33,585

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 Beto is used

Across 1910–2025, Beto was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Beto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Beto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 934
Best rank ever: #3,071; 1963
Peak year: 1963; 8 that year
First recorded: 1963
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 96
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Beto

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

Leto Beth Bettie Veto Bettye Bette Bethel Cleto Bethany Betsy Betzalel Betim Aniceto Kaeto Shigeto Betty Loreto Aniseto Robeto Anacleto

Sibling names for Beto

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

Jonna Lolita Maryjo Juliann Pennie Zina Deidre Johnna

For a brother

Rob Deron Mitch Toney Nicky Thad Stan Tod

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