Betsy

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Betsy: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #132 in 2017, and it stood at #227 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#132highest recorded position
10groupings 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	#944
1997	#1666
1998	#787
1999	#1160
2000	#1250
2001	#1238
2002	#861
2003	#876
2004	#655
2005	#634
2006	#639
2007	#570
2008	#639
2009	#483
2010	#320
2011	#193
2012	#169
2013	#151
2014	#144
2015	#135
2016	#154
2017	#132
2018	#145
2019	#140
2020	#179
2021	#179
2022	#204
2023	#248
2024	#227

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 England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #227 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #944 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #132 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #227 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Betsy appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 5,065 births with the name.

Betsy across 2 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.

Betsy'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
England and Wales · Girls	#944 (1996)	#132 (2017)	#227 (2024)	29 of 29	5,065 (1996–2024)	420 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#434 (2018)	#391 (2023)	#391 (2023)	4 of 6	12 (2018–2023)	3 (2018)

Betsy 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 Betsy in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	78	4 of 10	20
2000s	436	10 of 10	44
2010sbusiest	3,349	10 of 10	335
2020s	1,202	5 of 10	240

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 335 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2010 and 2011, when recorded births rose by 121, from 147 to 268.

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

Betsy 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #132 in England and Wales in 2017.

Betsy'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	#227	209	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#248	183	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#204	245	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#179	286	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#179	279	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#140	355	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#145	357	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#132	409	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#154	359	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#135	420	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#144	382	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#151	350	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#169	302	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#193	268	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#320	147	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#483	84	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#639	58	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#570	63	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#639	50	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#634	49	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#655	45	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#876	29	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1160	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#787	29	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1666	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#944	22	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	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
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #132, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 420 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 28 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.

Betsi · #1406, 20y
Betsie · #1048, 20y
Bettie · #2411, 18y
Bettina · #200, 55y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Jordon · #133, 30y
Saffron · #133, 31y
Alexa · #130, 29y
Ayra · #134, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ariella · #132, 30y
Conner · #131, 29y
Jordon · #133, 30y
Saffron · #133, 31y

Betsy was ranked #132 in England and Wales · Girls in 2017. 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.

Betsy 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 Betsy without appearing here.

Betsy moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1238 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #861 and #2301.
Yvonne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1250 and #1095 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1238 and #2023.
Carol Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1666 and #897 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #787 and #1480.
Belinda Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1238 and #898 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #861 and #1530.

Moved ahead of Betsy

Sienna Compare
In 1998 they stood at #787 and #1122 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1160 and #641.
Violet Compare
In 1998 they stood at #787 and #955 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1160 and #794.
Ivy Compare
In 2004 they stood at #655 and #758 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #634 and #494.
Harper Compare
In 2013 they stood at #151 and #160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #144 and #89.

Moved the opposite way to Betsy

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Betsy

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Betsy went from #944 to #227 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #132 in England and Wales in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Betsy

Betsy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Betsy across 2 official records

Betsy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Betsy appears in

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Betsy at a glance

Betsy across 2 official records

Betsy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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