Bethanie
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 116 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,733since 1950
Bethanie over time
Rank among girls' names. Bethanie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 |
| 2011 | #3,603 | 43 |
| 2010 | #3,409 | 47 |
| 2009 | #3,944 | 39 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 |
| 2006 | #2,940 | 58 |
| 2005 | #2,704 | 62 |
| 2004 | #2,286 | 76 |
| 2003 | #2,229 | 77 |
| 2002 | #2,018 | 86 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 |
| 2000 | #1,602 | 110 |
| 1999 | #1,654 | 100 |
| 1998 | #1,392 | 123 |
| 1997 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 1996 | #1,314 | 130 |
| 1995 | #1,456 | 110 |
| 1994 | #1,545 | 100 |
| 1993 | #1,518 | 103 |
| 1992 | #1,340 | 125 |
| 1991 | #1,277 | 131 |
| 1990 | #1,468 | 106 |
| 1989 | #1,373 | 110 |
| 1988 | #1,579 | 83 |
| 1987 | #1,227 | 116 |
| 1986 | #1,539 | 79 |
| 1985 | #1,505 | 81 |
| 1984 | #1,446 | 80 |
| 1983 | #1,358 | 88 |
| 1982 | #1,720 | 65 |
| 1981 | #1,382 | 89 |
| 1980 | #1,528 | 77 |
| 1979 | #1,569 | 73 |
| 1978 | #1,633 | 65 |
| 1977 | #1,736 | 59 |
| 1976 | #1,936 | 46 |
| 1975 | #2,097 | 41 |
| 1974 | #1,820 | 48 |
| 1973 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1972 | #2,523 | 28 |
| 1971 | #2,599 | 28 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 |
| 1969 | #2,134 | 35 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 |
| 1967 | #2,706 | 21 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,464 | 24 |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 |
| 1962 | #3,033 | 17 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bethanie! It came in at #4,315, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Bethanie is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#662 · 1 in 4,328
- Tennessee#737 · 1 in 5,882
- Missouri#759 · 1 in 5,904
- Ohio#1,055 · 1 in 10,306
- Georgia#1,072 · 1 in 8,554
Best ever in a state: #283 in West Virginia, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #662 | 5 | 1 in 4,328 |
| Tennessee | #737 | 5 | 1 in 5,882 |
| Missouri | #759 | 5 | 1 in 5,904 |
| Ohio | #1,055 | 6 | 1 in 10,306 |
| Georgia | #1,072 | 5 | 1 in 8,554 |
| Texas | #1,086 | 16 | 1 in 8,743 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,143 | 5 | 1 in 11,653 |
| Florida | #1,314 | 6 | 1 in 12,225 |
| California | #2,680 | 6 | 1 in 37,142 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Bethanie
- 1,964 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,917)
- 6,622 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1987 at #1,227 (116 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,485 girls born in 1996 were named Bethanie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,227 in 1987, was only 1 in 14,988 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.7% of all girls named Bethanie (1,145) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 40 | #4,315 (1950) | #5,442 |
| 1960s | 184 | #2,134 (1969) | #3,386 |
| 1970s | 452 | #1,569 (1979) | #2,063 |
| 1980s | 868 | #1,227 (1987) | #1,466 |
| 1990s | 1,145 | #1,277 (1991) | #1,438 |
| 2000s | 687 | #1,602 (2000) | #2,672 |
| 2010s | 300 | #3,409 (2010) | #5,053 |
| 2020s | 57 | #7,640 (2023) | #8,904 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bethanie in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,878 of them was named Bethanie, which outranked 91.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,412Natalee118
- #1,412Noor118
- #1,412Tatiyana118
- #1,419Bethanie117
- #1,419Jamila117
- #1,419Jesica117
- #1,419Karah117
- #1,434Anisha116
- #1,434Chrystal116
- #1,434Jackelyn116
Tied with 14 names at #1,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.