Bèth
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bèth is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Doublet of beta.
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #531 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
136,269 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Beth in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Bronze Agepicture(measured from records)
- Proto-Semitic*bayt-“house”(measured from records)
From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Doublet of beta.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bèth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #222 | 136,269 | 1 in 2.4K | 136K | Beth | 593 |
| GB United Kingdom | #246 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 14 | Beth | 294 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Beth | 24 |
| CA Canada | #258 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1 | Beth | 246 |
| IT Italy | #417 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Beth | 52 |
| IE Ireland | #150 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Beth | 79 |
| SK Slovakia | #485 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Beth | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | #224 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 10 | Beth | 106 |
136,269 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bèth mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Doublet of beta. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Bèth a male or female name?
- Bèth is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bèth have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 136 thousand people named Bèth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beth.
- How common is the name Bèth?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136,269 people named Bèth in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Bèth compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bèth is the 222nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A8thThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bèth” — the 222nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.