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Bettie vs Betzi

American parents have registered 38,478 Betties since 1880, against 40 Betzis. Bettie is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Bettie Betzi

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 143 years in which either name was published, Bettie for 142 years and Betzi for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Bettie Betzi
Total US births 38,47840
Most in one year 1,23325
Babies in 2025 10under 5
Estimated living today 11,00040
Median age today 7819
Peak year 19242006
Best rank 183rd girls5,383rd girls
Rank in 2025 9,457thunranked
First recorded 18802006
Girls / boys 38,395 / 8340 / 0

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 Betzis are over 19. That is 59 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: Bettie and Betzi.