How Many People Are Named Bethel?
people named Bethel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 133,145 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,237 babies named Bethel in Social Security records from 1890 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
150 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From an Old Testament place name meaning "house of God" in Hebrew. This was a town north of Jerusalem, where Jacob saw his vision of the stairway. It is occasionally used as a given name.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Bethel, 90.8% were girls and 9.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1890s: 88.1% of the babies were girls then and 94.4% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Bethel alive today is about 39 years old, and 51% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 69 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Bethel first appears in the records in 1890 and was given most often in 1922, to 150 babies. In 2025, 51 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1890 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Bethel has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #632, in 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,405. Among boys, its best rank was #748, in 1898.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,405 | #10,863 |
| Best rank | #632 (1917) | #748 (1898) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #738 in the 1920s | #1,533 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Bethel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bethel were born in California than in any other state: about 136 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bethel was given 7.4 times as often in Kentucky, 5.2 times in West Virginia and 3.5 times in Tennessee.
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