How Many People Are Named Bettye?
people named Bettye are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 38,852 people in the US has this name
Based on 22,967 babies named Bettye in Social Security records from 1883 to 1998, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐๐ Very Rare
Peak Year
763 births
Trend
Last year given
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of BETTY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Bettye in English. Counting Bettye and these spellings together, about 347,840 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Bettye (99.9%) were girls.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Bettye alive today is about 78 years old, and 96% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 74 and 84 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Bettye first appears in the records in 1883 and was given most often in 1933, to 763 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1998.
Babies given the name each year, 1883 to 1998
๐ Rank History
Bettye has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #220, in 1933.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #220 (1933) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #238 in the 1930s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Bettye alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bettye were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 1,171 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bettye was given 5.5 times as often in Mississippi, 4.9 times in Tennessee and 4.6 times in Alabama.
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