Bettie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bettie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
- USUnited States1 in 869as Betty(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 20Kas Bettye
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 45Kas Bettye
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bettie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- 1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
382,966 named Betty, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bettye in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DK Denmark and 1 more and Betty in SK Slovakia, NL Netherlands.
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)
A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bettie 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 | — | 382,966as Betty | 1 in 869 | 382K | Bettye | 276 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bettye | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 17,212as Betty | 1 in 982 | 17K | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,787as Betty | 1 in 3.7K | 2.8K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Bettye | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,393as Betty | 1 in 4.2K | 1.4K | Bettye | 2 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 650as Бети | 1 in 3.3K | 650 | — | 14 |
| SK Slovakia | #195 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Betty | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 179 | 1 in 97K | 765 | Betty | 7 |
382,966 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling betty. 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; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bettie Freshwater Poolb. 1860American writer, poet, and teacher
- Bettie Wilsonb. 1890US(1890-2006)
- Bettie du Toitb. 1910ZASouth African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist
- Bettie Hewesb. 1921CACanadian politician
- Bettie Shumwayb. 1924USAmerican politician
- Bettie de Jongb. 1933NLdancer
- Bettie Mae Fikesb. 1948USAmerican singer and activist
- Bettie Cook Scottb. 1953USAmerican politician from Michigan
- Bettie Eliasb. 1953BEBelgian writer
- Bettie Sue MastersUSAmerican biochemist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 104 | #153,590 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bettie mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bettie a male or female name?
- Bettie 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 Bettie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 383 thousand people named Betty, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bettie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bettie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 97 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Bettie?
- In the etymology graph, Lisa, Isabel and Betty are forms of the same name in other languages; Lillia is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Elizabeth and Elsabeth.
- How common is the name Bettie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 179 people named Bettie, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.
- How common is Bettie compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Bettie is the 195th most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bettie?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bettieThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bettie” — the 195th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.