Bettylou
Bettylou is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 811th, in 1927.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192781 births
- Best rank
- #811in 1927
- Since 1916
- 1,390people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,390 girls have been named Bettylou in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 81 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 81 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 34%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1927, its biggest year
Bettylou was the 811th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Bettylou
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bettypeak 1930
- Billyepeak 1930
- Margypeak 1929
- Willodeanpeak 1928
- Shirliepeak 1935
- Wynellpeak 1932
- Shirleepeak 1935
- Ardycepeak 1936
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.