Betty
Barely a name in Poland: only 82 women carry it, and no newborn has been given it this century. An English name with Hebrew roots, from a phrase meaning "god is my oath".
Betty Pronunciation
Betty is pronounced BET-tih (/ˈbɛttɨ/).
What Betty means
Where Betty comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Betty is a short form of Elizabeth, and Elizabeth goes back to the Hebrew Elisheva. The meaning has held across every language it passed through: god is my oath. A vow sits inside the name, older than any English use of it.
English took Betty as its own name long ago. By the early 1900s it ranked among the most common girls' names in England and the United States, and it held that place for a generation. Real Bettys filled that century. Betty White, the American actress, carried the name for nearly a hundred years and made it sound both plain and familiar.
The oath came first. Whatever a girl named Betty does with her life, the name still says what it said in Hebrew: god is my oath.
How many people are named Betty
1 in 274925 women in Poland is named Betty. 82 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3910 among female names.
Betty as a middle name
Betty is a first name for 82 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1333rd, between Astryda (28) and Boguchwała (28).
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#1331 Andreina28
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#1332 Astryda28
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#1333 Betty28
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#1334 Boguchwała28
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#1335 Cecile28