Given name & surname
Beto
Beto is a masculine given name from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Original SpanishRoberto
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Beto is a diminutive of Roberto. In Portuguese usage, Beto is a diminutive of Alberto.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Beto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 96
- 96 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #9,839 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,839 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,406 as a first name in 2020; 393 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beto’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Beto is a diminutive of Roberto. In Portuguese usage, Beto has a conventional equivalent in the English form Bert. In Portuguese usage, Beto is a diminutive of Alberto.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Beto has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Beto
- Beto O'RourkeAmerican politician (born 1972)
- BetoPortuguese footballer (born 1976)
- Beto AlmeidaBrazilian association football player and managerborn 1955
- Beto GonçalvesBrazilian footballerborn 1980
- BetoBrazilian footballerborn 1976
- Beto AcostaUruguayan footballerborn 1977
- Beto PérezColombian dancer and choreographerborn 1970
- BetoBrazilian footballerborn 1987
- Beto NavedaArgentine footballerborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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