# Bett (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 356 |
| US rank (2010) | 57,234 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 867,263 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.5% (344 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from personal names based on pet forms of Beatrice or Elizabeth, also masculine pet forms of Bertram and Bartholomew. * As a German surname from the noun Bett.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bett in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 19% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Similar surnames

Beatty, Beaty, Beattie, Butt, Bott, Batt, Beato, Betty, Bethea, Boyette, Boyett, Boyd.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.