Betty
About Betty
Combine the popularity of Betty White and Mad Men's glamorous Betty Draper Francis, with the residual sweetness of Ugly Betty's Betty Suarez, and the result is an impending return of the name. It's got presidential cred via Betty Ford and feminist history through Betty Friedan.
Betty's image is still very World War II, when Betty Grable was a hot pin-up girl and Betty was the all-American girls' name blanketing the country, second only to Mary from 1928 to 1934.
So yes, Betty has been out for so long now that we are starting to imagine a new generation of adorable baby Bettys. We may be on the precipice of a Betty wave, thanks to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, who recently chose it for their third daughter.
Bette Davis pronounced her name 'Betty,' while Bette Midler is 'Bet.'
Pronounced BET-ee.
As of October 2026, Betty ranked #1113 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2 in 1933, Nameberry popularity #562.
Editor's take: The name Betty is a girl's name of Hebrew, English origin meaning "pledged to God".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,240 | 196 | 109.7 |
| 2015 | #1,268 | 192 | 107.6 |
| 2016 | #1,328 | 179 | 101 |
| 2017 | #1,319 | 177 | 102.5 |
| 2018 | #1,131 | 216 | 127 |
| 2019 | #1,383 | 162 | 96.5 |
| 2020 | #1,176 | 197 | 121.9 |
| 2021 | #1,189 | 205 | 124.9 |
| 2022 | #1,157 | 210 | 128 |
| 2023 | #1,184 | 202 | 125.9 |
| 2024 | #1,008 | 253 | 156.2 |
| 2025 | #1,113 | 212 | 131.9 |
World rankings
Similar names
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- Frannie
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- Jean
- Virginia
- Dolly
- Lois
- Wendy
- Greta
Betty on lists
Famous Bettys
- Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford
First Lady of the U.S. as wife of President Gerald Ford
- Betty Marion White
American actress and comedian
- Elizabeth Ruth "Betty" Grable
American actress
- Elizabeth "Betty" Cuthbert
Australian Olympic runner
- Betty Mae Page
birth name of model Bettie Page
- Elisabeth Lillian "Betty" (Wehner) Smith
American novelist
- Elizabeth "Betty" Parris
accuser in the 1692 Salem witch trials
- Betty Friedan (born Bettye Naomi Goldstein)
American feminist author
- Betty X (born Zoe Pierce
Gibson), American musician, artist, and activist
- Betty Louise McCollum
U.S. Congresswoman from Minnesota
- Betty Boo
stage name of Alison Moira Clarkson, English pop singer
- Betty Who
stage name of Jessica Anne Newham, Australian singer
- Betty Lynn Buckley
American actress
- Betty Harris
American soul singer
- Elizabeth June "Betty" Hutton
American actress
- Betty Shabazz (born Betty Dean Sanders)
American educator and civil rights activist; wife of Malcolm X
- Hedvig Kristina Elisabeth "Betty" Deland
Swedish actress
- Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Driver
English actress
- Betty Margaret Hannah Kennedy
Canadian author and senator
- Betty Flippina Stöve
Dutch tennis player
- Betty Williams
Northern Irish winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Betty Moschona
Greek actress
- Betty Jackson
English fashion designer
- Betty Lou Gerson
American actress
- Betty Lou Bredemus
American actress; mother of actress Julia Roberts
- Betty Lou Holland
American actress
- Betty Lou Keim
American actress
- Elizabeth Folan "Betty" Gilpin
American actress
- Baciliky Andris "Betty" Cantrell
Miss America 2016
- Betty Lin
Fisher, 5th wife of singer Eddie Fisher
- Betty Cornell
American 1950s model who wrote a "Teen,age Popularity Guide"
- Betty Everett
American singer
- Betty Ann Bobbitt
Australian actress
- Betty Boogie Parker
American voice actress; daughter of "South Park" creator Trey Parker
- Betty Reynolds (b. 2019)
daughter of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds
- Betty Aberlin
American actress
Betty in pop culture
- Betty Crocker
food brand and its mascot
- Betty Boop
animated character
- Elizabeth "Betty" Draper
character on TV's "Mad Men"
- Beatriz "Ugly" Betty Suarez
title character on TV's "Ugly Betty"
- Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper
blonde good girl in Archie comics and TV's Riverdale
- Elizabeth "Betty" Ross
character in The Hulk series
- Betty Rizzo
character in musical "Grease"
- Betty Rubble
character on animated series "The Flintstones"
- "Betty Blue
" 1986 French movie and its main character
- "Atomic Betty
" animated series and its main character
- Betty
character on TV's "The Naked Brothers Band"
- Betty Eagleton
character on British soap opera "Emmerdale'
- Betty Slug
main character in Canadian comic strip "Betty"by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen
- Betty Spaghetty
bendable rubber doll
- Betty Spencer
character on British sitcom "Some Mothers do 'ave 'em"
- Betty Williams
character on British soap opera "Coronation Street"
- "Brickhouse Betty
" web series and its main character
- Betty Quinlan
minor character in animated series "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron"
- Betty Newbie
character in The Sims video games
- Betty Bot
character in The Sims video games
- "Betty
" retro expression for an attractive girl
- Brown betty
fruit dessert
- Betty de Famme
character in the video game "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice"
- “Betty
” song by Taylor Swift
- Betty Ramsey
character from “I Love Lucy”