# Bette (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bette/  
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 | /bɛt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 34,919 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 22 / 34,897 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 18, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 17,730 |
| 2010 | 6 | 15,267 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,311 |
| 2013 | 7 | 13,402 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,127 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,034 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,063 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,255 |
| 2019 | 5 | 15,921 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,359 |
| 2021 | 6 | 13,760 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,386 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,309 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,036 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11,103 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 6 | 3,915 |
| 1929 | 6 | 3,595 |
| 1934 | 5 | 3,721 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,495 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

## People named Bette

- Bette Davis, American actress (1908–1989)
- Bette Midler, American singer and actress (born 1945)
- Bette Korber, American computational biologist

## 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.