Betina
A Latin name at root, from a phrase meaning "my god is an oath". Only about 400 women in Poland carry it and it goes to almost no newborns now, so most Poles have never met one.
Betina Pronunciation
Betina is pronounced be-TEE-nah (/bɛˈtina/).
What Betina means
Where Betina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Betina reached Polish name registers by way of Latin. The meaning attached to it, "my god is an oath," is old. That phrase stands behind the name Elizabeth, whose Italian form Elisabetta gave rise to short names of the Betina type. Trace it further and you land on the Hebrew name Elisheva, the source of the oath itself.
An oath is a promise sworn before God. Betina folds that idea into a handful of letters, a small word doing the work of a sentence. The link to Elizabeth means the name sits inside a large family without needing any of its longer forms on the page.
On a class register, Betina is quick to read and quick to sign. It is short. A teacher calling the roll spends no extra breath on it. The origin stays Latin, the meaning stays "my god is an oath," bóg jest przysięgą in Polish.
How many people are named Betina
1 in 56360 women in Poland is named Betina. 400 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1479 among female names.
Betina as a middle name
Betina is a first name for 400 women in Poland and a middle name for another 91, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 698th, between Belen (91) and Chelsea (91).
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#696 Kasia92
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#697 Belen91
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#698 Betina91
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#699 Chelsea91
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#700 Diane91