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The table below indicates the number of times the name Betty has been given to baby boys 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 boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Betty**
Use of the Name Betty for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
2,666	0	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Betty has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Betty last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl 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 boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Betty**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl 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	891	8	91	707
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	913	56	5	25,998
1924	819	68	4	30,619
1925	708	83	3	32,805
1926	661	91	3	32,944
1927	609	105	3	35,392
1928	559	119	2	36,057
1929	509	133	2	36,653
1930	477	156	2	38,216
1931	458	153	2	36,030
1932	430	169	2	34,401
1933	445	154	2	31,496
1934	429	171	2	31,071
1935	463	150	4	28,638
1936	529	116	4	25,861
1937	526	121	5	25,302
1938	551	110	4	25,494
1939	498	131	4	23,633
1940	553	114	5	22,072
1941	537	121	7	20,862
1942	591	111	9	21,716
1943	672	91	10	21,516
1944	725	73	10	19,709
1945	784	62	11	18,401
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:		2,666		995,644

During the last 125 years, parents have used Betty as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Betty appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 24 times during the last 125 years.

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