# Bettina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bettina/  
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 | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,482 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 6,482 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 47, 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 | 9 | 11,319 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,278 |
| 2013 | 17 | 7,104 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,637 |
| 2015 | 6 | 14,798 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,479 |
| 2017 | 9 | 10,832 |
| 2018 | 10 | 9,940 |
| 2019 | 5 | 15,922 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,261 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,562 |
| 2022 | 7 | 12,450 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,452 |
| 2024 | 5 | 15,669 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,229 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3,225 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3,156 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

## People named Bettina

- Bettina Heinen-Ayech, German painter (1937–2020)
- Bettina Plank, Austrian karateka
- Bettina Zimmermann, German actress and model
- Bettina Soriat, Austrian singer
- Bettina Schmidt, East German luger (1960–2019)
- Bettina Campbell, Dutch pornographic actress
- Bettina Hoy, equestrian
- Bettina Rheims, French artist and photographer
- Bettina Wiegmann, German association football player
- Bettina Aptheker, American political activist, feminist, professor and author
- Bettina Fulco, Argentine tennis player
- Bettina Arndt, Australian sex therapist and social commentator

## 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.