Bettina

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bettina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Austria it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Pet form of ELISABETH.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria≈1 in 526(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 749
  • DKDenmark1 in 920

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 Bettina 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈110,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
347 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 526 (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BettinaLatin(measured from records)
베티나Hangul(measured from records)
ΜπεττιναGreek(measured from records)

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)

Pet form of ELISABETH. Birgit(ta) 2 Variant of sriciTTA.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bettina 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.

Where Bettina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#159≈110,000 est.≈1 in 749—Bettina246
AT Austria#87≈17,000 est.≈1 in 5266.4KBettina143
BR Brazil—14,535as Betina1 in 15K15K—3
US United States—6,8071 in 49K6.8KBettina347
DK Denmark#1616,3821 in 9206.4KBettina137
CH Switzerland#170≈5,200 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Bettina101
HU Hungary—≈4,100 est.≈1 in 2.4K12K—6

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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bettina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Bettīna

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Béttina, Bêttina, Bettinâ, Bêttïñā

  • Ukrainian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Беттіна, Беттина, Bettína

  • Bulgarian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish

    Also written Betina, Бетина, Bétina

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bettina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, a female given name used in Germany since the eighteenth century, originally short form of Elisabettina, an Italian diminutive of Elizabeth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, a female given name of Italian origin, via German

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, ) Bettine: weibl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von Elisabettina, einer

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Swedish, Bettina är ursprungligen en italiensk smekform till Elisabettina, en vidarebildning till → Elisabeth. Namnet användes i Västergötland från 1829 och framåt. Möjligen kan skalden Per Daniel Amadeus Atterboms dikt Bettina (tryckt 1820) ha inspirerat. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 19 november.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Diminutif de Béatrice ou Élisabeth selon les usages.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Bettina von Arnim, b. 1785Bettina Heinen-Ayech, b. 1937Bettina Brokemper, b. 1950Bettina Rheims, b. 1952Bettina Böhler, b. 1960Bettina Reitz, b. 1962Bettina Röhl, b. 1962Bettina Stark-Watzinger, b. 1968Bettina Wulff, b. 1973Bettina Zimmermann, b. 1975

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 79 sources across 42 countries.

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Bettina come from?
Pet form of ELISABETH. Birgit(ta) 2 Variant of sriciTTA. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Bettina a male or female name?
Bettina 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.
What does the name Bettina mean?
Recorded meaning: Pet form of ELISABETH.
What are other forms of the name Bettina?
In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Elisabeth.
In which country does Bettina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Bettina in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bettina.
How common is the name Bettina?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,807 people named Bettina in 2020, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
How common is Bettina compared with other names?
In Germany, Bettina is the 159th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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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, “Bettina” — the 159th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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