Bettie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Bettie in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Bettie in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Bettie by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Bettie ranks at #8,864. That means there are 8,863 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 31,530 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bettie. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Bettie is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2017, where the name Bettie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Bettie and were born in the USA in 2017, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Bettie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1882, it ranked on position 129 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bettie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Bettie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 10 times and thus landed on position 8,408 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 10 girls with the name Bettie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Bettie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Bettie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bettie, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Tiger
Tiger
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bettie
Bettie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bettie sounds like this:
