Betty

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Betty: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Betty: Recorded since 1945, it reached #200 in 1956, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#200highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1072
1997	#1450
1998	#1392
1999	#1393
2000	#1688
2001	#2023
2002	#1066
2003	#1383
2004	#963
2005	#866
2006	#665
2007	#774
2008	#650
2009	#621
2010	#576
2011	#494
2012	#458
2013	#456
2014	#370
2015	#349
2016	#394
2017	#381
2018	#408
2019	#355
2020	#413
2021	#407
2022	#365
2023	#455
2024	#360

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 29 of the 56 years from 1945 to 2000.

In 2024: #360 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #322 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2000
Highest recorded position: #200 among girls in Norway, in 1956 (recorded 1945–2000).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Betty appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 255 births with the name.

Betty across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Betty's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#322 (1945)	#200 (1956)	#582 (2000)	29 of 56	255 (1945–2000)	19 (1956)
England and Wales · Girls	#1072 (1996)	#349 (2015)	#360 (2024)	29 of 29	1,977 (1996–2024)	135 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#586 (2021)	#718 (2025)	10 of 18	37 (2008–2025)	6 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#365 (2014)	#350 (2021)	#354 (2022)	3 of 9	12 (2014–2022)	4 (2014)

Betty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Betty in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	4 of 10	14
2000s	317	10 of 10	32
2010sbusiest	1,067	10 of 10	107
2020s	537	5 of 10	107

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 107 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 34, from 87 to 121.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Betty appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #200 in Norway in 1956.

Betty's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#360	121	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#455	87	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#365	117	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#407	109	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#413	103	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#355	124	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#408	108	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#381	119	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#394	115	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#349	135	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#370	121	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#456	92	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#458	98	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#494	86	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#576	69	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#621	60	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#650	57	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#774	42	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#665	47	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#963	26	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1066	20	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1392	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1072	18	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#582	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#656	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#591	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#492	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#582	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#564	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#520	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#403	7	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#359	8	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#359	8	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#290	10	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#302	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#264	12	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#333	8	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#294	10	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#236	13	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#200	19	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#218	16	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#238	13	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#233	14	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#319	8	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#296	8	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#281	9	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#244	13	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#230	15	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#323	7	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#322	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 58 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #200, first reached in 1956.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 135 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bettie · #2411, 18y
Bettina · #200, 55y
Beulah · #2411, 24y
Bevan · #59, 33y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amal · #208, 62y
Hana · #190, 53y
Antonia · #189, 58y
Solomon · #216, 57y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Anni · #200, 56y
Ingfrid · #200, 28y
Margun · #200, 22y
Snefrid · #200, 28y

Betty was ranked #200 in Norway · Girls in 1956. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Betty and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Betty without appearing here.

Betty moved ahead of

Vicki Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2023 and #2023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1066 and #3409.
Cheryl Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1688 and #1313 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2023 and #3262.
Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2023 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1066 and #2301.
Kristy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2023 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1066 and #2301.

Moved ahead of Betty

Sarah Compare
In 1969 they stood at #403 and #520 in Norway · Girls; by 1970 that had become #520 and #265.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #576 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #494 and #261.
Melissa Compare
In 1979 they stood at #492 and #565 in Norway · Girls; by 1980 that had become #559 and #341.
Natalie Compare
In 1979 they stood at #520 and #551 in Norway · Girls; by 1980 that had become #559 and #343.

Moved the opposite way to Betty

Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 while Cecilie went from #359 to #79.
Frida Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 while Frida went from #302 to #21.
Hanna Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 while Hanna went from #164 to #34.
Hanne Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 while Hanne went from #123 to #41.

Moved the same way as Betty

Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 and Ann from #82 to #159.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 and Anne from #1 to #42.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 and Annie from #180 to #263.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2000 in Norway · Girls, Betty went from #322 to #582 and Åse from #25 to #321.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #200 in Norway in 1956. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Betty

Betty at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Betty across 4 official records

Betty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Betty appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Betty and the names beside it

Betty moved ahead of

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Betty at a glance

Betty across 4 official records

Betty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Betty appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Betty

Betty and the names beside it

Betty moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Betty

Moved the opposite way to Betty

Moved the same way as Betty