US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Bette name popularity

Bette has been given to 34,919 babies in the United States since 1896.

It peaked in 1924, when 1,742 babies got the name, and its best rank was #256 in 1923.

In 2025, 8 babies were named Bette (#18,449 in the country), 99.5% below the peak. That is down 11% from 2015.

Almost every Bette is a girl.

An estimated 9.9K people named Bette are alive in the US today, with a median age of 79.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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