Bettyanne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bettyanne has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1928, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Bettyanne, 1966
1 in 695,000
Bettyanne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bettyanne?
Bettyanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1966
- 1 in 695,000
- 5 of 3,475,564 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 338,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1966
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,817 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bettyanne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1966 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,817 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bettyanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bettyannes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bettyanne was born before 1940 — so the typical Bettyanne is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 42.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 49.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Bettyanne 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 1928 (10)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.2% average annual change
Spellings of Bettyanne
Bettyanne is not the most common spelling — Bettyann is, with 39.3% against Bettyanne's 3.2%.
Bettyanne around the world
Where Bettyanne 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 Australia1958–1971#724in 1971
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bettyanne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bettyanne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bettyanne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.