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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Bethel

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#3,406

up +246 places

2025 births

45

up +3 births

All-time births

5,221

1% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1922
119 births
Best rank
#632
in 1917
First recorded
1890
#1,229 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1952
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
135 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1922119#666Peak
  2. 1917116#632
  3. 1924116#688
  4. 1918113#673
  5. 1921112#699

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #632 in 1917 · peak births 119 in 1922

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 16% boys■ 84% girls

1,016 boys · 5,221 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Bethel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.