Bettylou
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bettylou has been given to 1,390 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1927, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Bettylou, 2015
1 in 617,000
Bettylou 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Bettylou?
Bettylou had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 617,000
- 6 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 297,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 427,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bettylou sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bettylou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bettylous were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bettylou was born before 1933 — so the typical Bettylou is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 34.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.43%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 147
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (473).
Is Bettylou 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
- —
- 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 1927 (81)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Spellings of Bettylou
Bettylou is the most-used spelling, taking 64.3% of the 2,161 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Bettylou64.3%1,390
- Bettyjo35.7%771
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 Bettylou is used
Across 1910–2025, Bettylou was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 215,239 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
- 2Illinois1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 5Wisconsin1 in 100,000
- 6California1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Missouri1 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. Bettylou has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bettylou around the world
Where Bettylou 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 & Wales2014–2025#4,867in 2025
- France1994–2011#6,697in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Bettylou by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bettylou
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bettylou
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.