# Bettye (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bettye/  
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 | 22,967 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 47 / 22,920 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 10 | 6,355 |
| 1981 | 7 | 8,206 |
| 1982 | 8 | 7,550 |
| 1983 | 12 | 5,491 |
| 1984 | 9 | 6,862 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,430 |
| 1986 | 8 | 7,825 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,492 |
| 1989 | 5 | 12,599 |
| 1990 | 8 | 9,344 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,670 |
| 1992 | 9 | 8,819 |
| 1996 | 5 | 13,789 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,014 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,435 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 6 | 3,629 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,116 |
| 1935 | 5 | 3,698 |
| 1936 | 6 | 3,182 |
| 1939 | 5 | 3,529 |
| 1940 | 8 | 2,686 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,553 |
| 1942 | 5 | 3,617 |

## People named Bettye

- Bettye Ackerman, American actress (1924-2006)
- Bettye LaVette, American soul singer-songwriter
- Bettye Washington Greene, African-American chemist (1935-1995)

## 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.