Given name & surname
Betti
“my God is bountiful”
Betti is a variant of Betty. In English use, Betty carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Original ItalianElisabetta
Meaning & origin
What it means
Betti is a variant of Betty. In English use, Betty carries the interpretation “my God is bountiful.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian usage, Betti is a diminutive of Elisabetta. In Estonian usage, Betti is a diminutive of ELIISABET.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Betti through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 849
- 0 boys · 849 girls
- Most popular year
- 1946
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 37 in 1946. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 671 as a first name in 2020; 636 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.
Betti’s family of names
In German usage, Betti is a diminutive of Babette. Betti has a related form in Betty. In Italian usage, Betti is a diminutive of Elisabetta.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Betti has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Betti comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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