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Bettina

#10,225 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Elisabeth

Bettina has been given to 6,482 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #10,225 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1965, with 192 recorded.

Babies named Bettina, 2025

1 in 368,000

Bettina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bettina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Elisabeth

German

What Bettina means

Bettina is a diminutive of Elisabeth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bettina → Elisabeth. The family’s meaning is “my God is an oath”, recorded in English with the source elements Elishéva.

Origin, language, and formation

Bettina is used in English, Danish, German and Italian. Its origins include German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Elisabeth, Elisabettina and Elizabeth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Bettina is pronounced /bɛˈtiːna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,482 girls were recorded with the name Bettina between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 192 in 1965; its best national rank was #714 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,256 in 2020 to #10,225 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,793 in 2015 to #10,225 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bettina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,225
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bettina 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 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bettina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bettinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bettina was born before 1965 — so the typical Bettina is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,189
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (1,641).

Is Bettina 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
+5,439
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,031
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,568
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.7%
Peak was 1965 (192)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#714
1965

Spellings of Bettina

Bettina is not the most common spelling — Bettie is, with 76.7% against Bettina's 12.9%.

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 Bettina is used

Across 1910–2025, Bettina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 42,396 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 50,000

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

Bettina around the world

Where Bettina 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 & Wales
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1911–2024
    #7,106
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2012
    #456
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1949–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Bettina

People whose public names include Bettina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bettina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bettina. Linked forms have their own page here.

LizIlsaIlseIlzeLisaLiseLizaTinaTineBetsyBettyLieseLieslLiisaBetinaLieselElspethElisabetElizabetElisabethElizabetaElizabethElisabettaEske

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bettina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,225
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,031
Best rank ever
#714
1965
Peak year
1965
192 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,482
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Bettina

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

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Names with a curve like Bettina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bettina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AndraJaneenCharlaLanetteMarkLanitaAntionetteTanaSharlaDawnaRenitaLavonda

Sibling names for Bettina

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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