Betsy

Where Betsy comes from

From the clipping of Elizabeth + -sy (hypocoristic suffix).
— Wiktionary's entry for Betsy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1923
    Betsy Blair born
    American actress
  3. 1958
    Betsy DeVos born
    American politician and philanthropist
  4. 1959
    Peak, #228
    1,390 babies named Betsy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #393.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Namesakes
  • Betsy DeVos · American politician and philanthropist, born 1958
  • Betsy Blair · American actress, 1923–2009
  • Betsy Brandt · American actress, born 1973
  • Betsy Ross · American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag, 1752–1836
  • Betsy Russell · American actress, born 1963

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.