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Beto vs Bettie

American parents have registered 38,478 Betties since 1880, against 96 Betos. Bettie is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beto against Bettie, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beto Bettie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Bettie for 143 years and Beto for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Beto Bettie
Total US births 9638,478
Most in one year 81,233
Babies in 2025 710
Estimated living today 9011,000
Median age today 1078
Peak year 19631924
Best rank 3,044th boys183rd girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th9,457th
First recorded 19631880
Girls / boys 0 / 9638,395 / 83

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Betties alive today are over 78; half the Betos are over 10. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Beto and Bettie.