Bettyjean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bettyjean has been given to 421 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1924, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Bettyjean, 1991
1 in 556,000
Bettyjean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bettyjean?
Bettyjean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 556,000
- 7 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 385,483 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bettyjean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 385,483 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bettyjean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bettyjeans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bettyjean was born before 1937 — so the typical Bettyjean is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 102
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (119).
Is Bettyjean 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 1924 (21)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.0% average annual change
Spellings of Bettyjean
Bettyjean is not the most common spelling — Bettyjane is, with 65.2% against Bettyjean's 34.8%.
- Bettyjane65.2%788
- Bettyjean34.8%421
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 Bettyjean is used
Across 1910–2025, Bettyjean was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,084,400 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Bettyjean has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bettyjean around the world
Where Bettyjean 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 Australia1967–1967#650in 1967
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Bettyjean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bettyjean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bettyjean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.