Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Betina isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Betina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,016
- 0 boys · 1,016 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 49 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,548 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,548 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 49 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,332 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Betina’s family of names
In Danish usage, Betina has a related form in Bettina.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 43
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Isabellaequivalent
- Elizabethequivalent
- Isabelleequivalent
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- Lisaequivalent
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- Lizaequivalent
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- Elisabettaequivalent
- Ilzeequivalent
- Liisaequivalent
- Bertinaequivalent
- Lieseequivalent
- Tineequivalent
- Bethinaequivalent
- Liseequivalent
- Elizabetaequivalent
- Sabelequivalent
- Erzsébetequivalent
- Elžbietaequivalent
- Élisabethequivalent
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- Liesbethequivalent
- Elesbedequivalent
- Elżbietaequivalent
- Liisiequivalent
- Alžbětaequivalent
- Elizabetoequivalent
- Ísabellaequivalent
- Eskeequivalent
- Ilzaequivalent
People named Betina
- Betina JozamiArgentine tennis playerborn 1988
- Betina RiegelhuthNorwegian handball playerborn 1987
- Betina PopovaRussian ice dancerborn 1996
- Betina O'ConnellArgentinian actorborn 1976
- Betina GonzalezArgentine writerborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Betina, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% girls
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>99% girls
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“resembling a graceful white lily”
>99% girls
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“one of a solemn, dignified character”
>99% girls
Ericka
Ericka is a feminine given name from Germanic.
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