# Beth (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/beth/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 159,755 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 325 / 159,430 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6,440, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 49 | 3,312 |
| 2012 | 47 | 3,427 |
| 2013 | 35 | 4,173 |
| 2014 | 45 | 3,495 |
| 2015 | 44 | 3,540 |
| 2016 | 39 | 3,862 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,925 |
| 2018 | 46 | 3,407 |
| 2019 | 33 | 4,268 |
| 2020 | 43 | 3,507 |
| 2021 | 52 | 3,118 |
| 2022 | 40 | 3,775 |
| 2023 | 31 | 4,476 |
| 2024 | 53 | 3,054 |
| 2025 | 45 | 3,405 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 3,655 |
| 1973 | 7 | 4,099 |
| 1974 | 8 | 3,880 |
| 1975 | 8 | 3,982 |
| 1976 | 10 | 3,496 |
| 1977 | 9 | 3,870 |
| 1978 | 9 | 3,885 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,448 |
| 1980 | 10 | 3,874 |
| 1981 | 9 | 4,185 |
| 1983 | 7 | 4,977 |
| 1985 | 6 | 5,859 |
| 1986 | 6 | 6,009 |
| 1987 | 7 | 5,519 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,026 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 184 | 268 |
| 2011 | 156 | 315 |
| 2012 | 156 | 308 |
| 2013 | 123 | 368 |
| 2014 | 73 | 576 |
| 2015 | 98 | 444 |
| 2016 | 65 | 645 |
| 2017 | 64 | 648 |
| 2018 | 43 | 864 |
| 2019 | 28 | 1,189 |
| 2020 | 24 | 1,313 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,351 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,863 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |

## People named Beth

- Beth Behrs, American actress
- Beth Hart, American blues rock musician
- Beth Ditto, American singer
- Beth Mead, English footballer
- Beth Gibbons, British singer
- Beth Broderick, American actress
- Mary Beth Hurt, American stage and film actress
- Beth Grant, American actress
- Beth Riesgraf, American actress
- Beth Carvalho, Brazilian musician (1946–2019)
- Beth Tweddle, British artistic gymnast (born 1985)
- Beth Mooney, Australian cricketer (born 1994)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.