Bettyann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bettyann has been given to 1,403 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1943, with 58 recorded.
Babies named Bettyann, 2008
1 in 786,000
Bettyann 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bettyann?
Bettyann 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 Bettyann 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 Bettyann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bettyanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bettyann was born before 1943 — so the typical Bettyann is around 82 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 27.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 494
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (392).
Is Bettyann 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 1943 (58)
- Years since peak
- 82
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.8% average annual change
Spellings of Bettyann
Bettyann is not the most common spelling — Bethann is, with 56.4% against Bettyann's 27.9%.
Where Bettyann is used
Across 1910–2025, Bettyann was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 116,978 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 2New York1 in 50,000
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Massachusetts1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Wisconsin1 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. Bettyann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bettyann around the world
Where Bettyann 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 Australia1953–1955#502in 1955
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bettyann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bettyann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bettyann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.