Bethany vs Mary Kate

Head to head

Ranks are only compared within one published list and one year. Two ranks from different years, from a boys' and a girls' list, or from different registrars are not comparable, so they are not placed side by side.

• Republic of Ireland · Girls

  In 2025, Bethany was ranked #544 and Mary Kate #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Bethany and Mary Kate over time

Bethany and Mary Kate appear together in 1 published list, across 17 years of shared records. Bethany held the stronger position in more years in 1 of them, Mary Kate in 0.

In none of those lists did their order change and stay changed.

Mary Kate reached its own highest recorded position earlier in 1 of those lists, and Bethany in none. Each position is a place inside its own list, so this compares when they peaked and never how high.

Counted list by list. Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale in the same year, so those comparisons are real — but positions from different lists are not, so nothing here is combined into an overall standing.

List by list

• Republic of Ireland · Girls17 shared years, 2006–2025

  Bethany held the stronger position in 16 of those years, Mary Kate in 0.

  Highest recorded here: Bethany #273 in 2013, Mary Kate #319 in 2010.

  The order between them never changed and held in this list.

  Most recent shared year, 2025: Bethany #544, Mary Kate #885.

Two names moving past each other in a ranking is a fact about the ranking. Namewise does not claim one name displaced the other, that families chose between them, or that either influenced the other — none of that is in this data.

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Comparisons that share a name, a rule or a published list with this one. Each is an existing comparison page with its own evidence — nothing here says these pairs are alike.

Side by side

How each name got here