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Bettine

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bettine has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1968, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Bettine, 1968

1 in 676,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bettine: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bettine means

Bettine is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bettine is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Bettine between 1968 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1968; its best national rank was #7,091 in 1968.

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 Bettine?

Bettine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968
1 in 676,000
5 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
468,333 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bettine 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 1968 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 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bettine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bettines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bettine was born before 1968 — so the typical Bettine is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Bettine 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 1968 (5)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,091
1968

Spellings of Bettine

Bettine is not the most common spelling — Nettie is, with 25.0% against Bettine'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.

Bettine around the world

Where Bettine 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.

  • South Australia
    1946–1946
    #367
    in 1946

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bettine 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
—
Best rank ever
#7,091
1968
Peak year
1968
5 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bettine

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

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Sibling names for Bettine

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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