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The name Betty is a diminutive form of Elizabeth. The table below indicates the number of times the name Betty has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Betty**
Use of the Name Betty for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
995,644	100,010	7,191	447	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Betty has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Betty last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1996, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Betty**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	136	117
1881	140	112
1882	145	123
1883	150	120
1884	149	144
1885	145	155
1886	147	167
1887	144	179
1888	148	215
1889	159	189
1890	164	216
1891	147	239
1892	155	255
1893	139	298
1894	145	298
1895	131	350
1896	139	342
1897	132	367
1898	126	421
1899	119	410
1900	100	669
1901	112	474
1902	101	580
1903	98	596
1904	91	707	891	8
1905	85	807
1906	81	865
1907	77	1,018
1908	72	1,128
1909	77	1,081
1910	69	1,385
1911	69	1,452
1912	66	2,008
1913	67	2,228
1914	62	2,935
1915	53	4,180
1916	44	5,139
1917	34	6,637
1918	21	8,809
1919	15	10,111
1920	11	14,016
1921	8	17,627
1922	6	20,885
1923	5	25,998	913	56
1924	4	30,619	819	68
1925	3	32,805	708	83
1926	3	32,944	661	91
1927	3	35,392	609	105
1928	2	36,057	559	119
1929	2	36,653	509	133
1930	2	38,216	477	156
1931	2	36,030	458	153
1932	2	34,401	430	169
1933	2	31,496	445	154
1934	2	31,071	429	171
1935	4	28,638	463	150
1936	4	25,861	529	116
1937	5	25,302	526	121
1938	4	25,494	551	110
1939	4	23,633	498	131
1940	5	22,072	553	114
1941	7	20,862	537	121
1942	9	21,716	591	111
1943	10	21,516	672	91
1944	10	19,709	725	73
1945	11	18,401	784	62
1946	14	19,663
1947	17	18,928
1948	18	16,626
1949	22	14,972
1950	26	13,626
1951	29	12,771
1952	32	12,140
1953	33	11,360
1954	36	10,608
1955	36	9,937
1956	44	9,230
1957	50	8,465
1958	54	7,716
1959	59	7,309
1960	68	6,508
1961	87	5,568
1962	97	4,769
1963	104	4,157
1964	102	4,077
1965	103	3,570
1966	121	2,951
1967	137	2,551
1968	151	2,141
1969	154	2,139
1970	168	1,974
1971	175	1,762
1972	202	1,376
1973	196	1,325
1974	228	1,130
1975	236	1,023
1976	262	908
1977	293	807
1978	320	714
1979	330	712
1980	358	657
1981	354	660
1982	364	635
1983	390	561
1984	425	499
1985	435	505
1986	513	403
1987	497	432
1988	550	393
1989	562	396
1990	578	400
1991	647	340
1992	721	296
1993	727	292
1994	755	275
1995	834	234
1996	917	213
Totals:		995,644		2,666

During the last 125 years, parents have used Betty as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Betty appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 117 times during the last 125 years.

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