Betsey
Betsey is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 725th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194262 births
- Best rank
- #725in 1889
- Since 1884
- 2,481people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,481 girls have been named Betsey in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1942, with 62 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 62 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1940s alone account for 20%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Betsey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 33 | |
| 1890s | 32 | |
| 1900s | 27 | |
| 1910s | 107 | |
| 1920s | 230 | |
| 1930s | 304 | |
| 1940s | 495 | |
| 1950s | 393 | |
| 1960s | 289 | |
| 1970s | 279 | |
| 1980s | 177 | |
| 1990s | 36 | |
| 2000s | 38 | |
| 2010s | 36 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1942, its biggest year
Betsey was the 993rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1942 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Linda and Carol. See all of 1942.
Names that rose and fell with Betsey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kathernpeak 1954
- Jeanettepeak 1939
- Dottiepeak 1943
- Edwinapeak 1943
- Janepeak 1947
- Nitapeak 1956
- Sallypeak 1947
- Robertapeak 1953
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.