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How popular is “Bettie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bettie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bettie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bettie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bettie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bettie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bettie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bettie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 113 0.000560839 113 100%
1881 103 0.000534543 103 100%
1882 136 0.000613904 136 100%
1883 130 0.000599227 130 100%
1884 118 0.000484677 118 100%
1885 127 0.00052729 127 100%
1886 141 0.000552257 141 100%
1887 117 0.000472934 117 100%
1888 169 0.000564323 169 100%
1889 144 0.000498363 144 100%
1890 136 0.000451226 136 100%
1891 138 0.000481385 138 100%
1892 155 0.000463553 155 100%
1893 129 0.000396651 129 100%
1894 118 0.000348401 118 100%
1895 133 0.000378896 133 100%
1896 125 0.000349666 125 100%
1897 138 0.000397744 138 100%
1898 150 0.000393231 150 100%
1899 135 0.000397955 135 100%
1900 167 0.000370898 167 100%
1901 111 0.000320984 111 100%
1902 145 0.000374936 145 100%
1903 123 0.000322665 123 100%
1904 155 0.000384153 155 100%
1905 128 0.000301942 128 100%
1906 110 0.000256739 110 100%
1907 157 0.000337351 157 100%
1908 130 0.00026604 130 100%
1909 137 0.000267984 137 100%
1910 166 0.000281017 166 100%
1911 153 0.000237475 153 100%
1912 191 0.000193308 191 100%
1913 216 0.000189955 216 100%
1914 256 0.000180747 256 100%
1915 347 0.000189366 347 100%
1916 339 0.000175247 339 100%
1917 447 0.000222748 447 100%
1918 522 0.00024043 522 100%
1919 608 0.000288118 608 100%
1920 777 0.000343404 777 100%
1921 818 0.000350395 818 100%
1922 868 0.000379179 868 100%
1923 1063 0.000461676 1058 5 99%
1924 1233 0.000517717 1228 5 99%
1925 1204 0.000516007 1204 100%
1926 1189 0.000517879 1183 6 99%
1927 1077 0.000464353 1072 5 99%
1928 1098 0.000485639 1098 100%
1929 1035 0.000472137 1029 6 99%
1930 1010 0.000454282 1005 5 99%
1931 1032 0.000490404 1032 100%
1932 1004 0.000475538 999 5 99%
1933 932 0.000466129 921 11 98%
1934 916 0.00044106 916 100%
1935 831 0.000397627 831 100%
1936 831 0.000399985 825 6 99%
1937 762 0.000357634 762 100%
1938 878 0.000396823 869 9 98%
1939 781 0.000354445 776 5 99%
1940 747 0.000324404 747 100%
1941 737 0.000302492 732 5 99%
1942 724 0.000265025 724 100%
1943 782 0.000277054 782 100%
1944 719 0.000267278 719 100%
1945 696 0.000262353 691 5 99%
1946 679 0.000212499 679 100%
1947 649 0.000180162 649 100%
1948 616 0.000178421 616 100%
1949 538 0.000154386 538 100%
1950 437 0.000124737 437 100%
1951 490 0.000133017 490 100%
1952 371 0.000097683 371 100%
1953 326 0.000084595 326 100%
1954 321 0.000080639 321 100%
1955 279 0.000069488 279 100%
1956 246 0.000059665 246 100%
1957 272 0.000064729 272 100%
1958 204 0.000049348 204 100%
1959 235 0.000056518 230 5 96%
1960 174 0.000041889 174 100%
1961 145 0.000035005 145 100%
1962 118 0.000029241 118 100%
1963 100 0.000025264 100 100%
1964 98 0.000025208 98 100%
1965 75 0.000020687 75 100%
1966 68 0.000019565 68 100%
1967 62 0.000018263 62 100%
1968 63 0.000018648 63 100%
1969 66 0.000018991 66 100%
1970 53 0.000014696 53 100%
1971 53 0.000015441 53 100%
1972 32 0.000010181 32 100%
1973 36 0.000011933 36 100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 100%
1975 28 0.000009273 28 100%
1976 20 0.000006591 20 100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 18 0.000005671 18 100%
1979 26 0.000007815 26 100%
1980 23 0.000006677 23 100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 24 0.00000693 24 100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 20 0.000005202 20 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1993 11 0.000002918 11 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 13 0.000003403 13 100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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