Bethel
Bethel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 632nd, in 1917.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1922119 births
- Best rank
- #632in 1917
- Since 1890
- 6,186people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,176 girls have been named Bethel in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 119 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Bethel is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are boys (1,010), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Bethel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 141 | |
| 1900s | 262 | |
| 1910s | 798 | |
| 1920s | 977 | |
| 1930s | 606 | |
| 1940s | 392 | |
| 1950s | 250 | |
| 1960s | 224 | |
| 1970s | 130 | |
| 1980s | 107 | |
| 1990s | 111 | |
| 2000s | 324 | |
| 2010s | 611 | |
| 2020s | 243 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Bethel was the 666th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Bethel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rubypeak 1924
- Faepeak 1916
- Jewelpeak 1920
- Madalenepeak 1919
- Marvelpeak 1929
- Novellapeak 1923
- Verapeak 1918
- Rubiepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.