Bitsy

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bitsy has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1958, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Bitsy, 1962

1 in 807,000

Bitsy over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bitsy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bitsy means

Bitsy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bitsy is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Bitsy between 1943 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1958; its best national rank was #4,759 in 1943.

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.

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How common is Bitsy?

Bitsy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962: 1 in 807,000; 5 of 4,035,213 births
Among girls only: 1 in 393,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1962: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 559,400 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Bitsy 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 1962 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 559,400 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bitsy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bitsys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bitsy was born before 1958 — so the typical Bitsy is around 67 today.

Median birth year: 1958; About 67 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Bitsy 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 1958 (6)
Years since peak: 67; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,759; 1943

Spellings of Bitsy

Bitsy is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 82.5% against Bitsy's <0.01%.

Betty82.5%1,001,238
Patsy9.8%119,448
Betsy4.0%48,947
Kitty0.96%11,657
Litzy0.60%7,228
Missy0.48%5,776
Billy0.45%5,432
Gitty0.31%3,715

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.

Bitsy 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: #4,759; 1943
Peak year: 1958; 6 that year
First recorded: 1943
Last recorded: 1962
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Bitsy

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

Bitia Bitanya Kitsy Bittany Bithiah Ketsy Bitha Bitania Bettsy Dotsy Bita Pattsy Litsy Bitaniya Jaretsy Yaretsy Mitsy Betsy Patsy

Sibling names for Bitsy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Gerri Cathie Lizabeth Laureen Pamala Valorie Ginny Cindi

For a brother

Von Curtiss Russ Lonny Nicky Dwain Gerry Stan

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