Bettina

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bettina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Pet form of ELISABETH.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria1 in 501◐
  • DEGermany1 in 744
  • DKDenmark1 in 920

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈31K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
303 ●

260K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 920 ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

BettinaLatin · German●217K records
베티나Hangul · Korean●1 records
ΜπεττιναGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Pet form of ELISABETH. Birgit(ta) 2 Variant of sriciTTA.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bettina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#161163,108147K rec.——Bettina230
AT Austria#10533,0048.1K rec.—6.4KBettina138
BR Brazil—14,535△8 rec.1 in 15K15KBettina4
US United States—6,80275K rec.1 in 49K6.8KBettina303
DK Denmark#2026,382△2.4K rec.1 in 9206.4KBettina133
NL Netherlands—6,026955 rec.—541Bettina66
GB United Kingdom—5,7305K rec.——Bettina94
AU Australia—5,4824.8K rec.—4Bettina120
CH Switzerland#1563,9302.3K rec.——Bettina88
CA Canada—1,9581.8K rec.—1Bettina71
BE Belgium—1,0701.1K rec.—8Bettina46
PH Philippines—835625 rec.——Bettina44

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German217K39%
  • Hungarian107K19%
  • English84K15%
  • Spanish43K8%
  • Danish28K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German216,66439%
Hungarian107,34219%
English83,94915%
Spanish43,3388%
Danish27,9735%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bettina is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name108K records spelled Bettina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Bettīna

  • French given name23K records spelled Bettina6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Béttina, Bêttina, Bêttïñā, Bettinâ

  • Polish given name2.5K records spelled Bettina12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Poland, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Беттіна, Беттина, Bettína

  • Polish given name609 records spelled Bettina17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Bulgaria, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Betina, Бетина, Bétina

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bettina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, a female given name used in Germany since the eighteenth century, originally short form of Elisabettina, an Italian diminutive of Elizabeth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, a female given name of Italian origin, via German

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, ) Bettine: weibl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von Elisabettina, einer

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Swedish, Bettina är ursprungligen en italiensk smekform till Elisabettina, en vidarebildning till → Elisabeth. Namnet användes i Västergötland från 1829 och framåt. Möjligen kan skalden Per Daniel Amadeus Atterboms dikt Bettina (tryckt 1820) ha inspirerat. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 19 november.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Diminutif de Béatrice ou Élisabeth selon les usages.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015020019502000192 · 1965

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Bettina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1903–2025
Yearrecords
19035
19059
19076
19088
19098
191016
19119
191217
191324
191432
191535
191635
191724
191834
191922
192028
192126
192230
192325
192426
192518
192634
192717
192823
192921
193017
193127
193230
193325
193425
193516
193617
193727
193818
193922
194029
194126
194234
194343
194458
194567
194671
194786
194859
194964
195070
195162
195262
195359
195481
195583
1956126
1957139
1958115
1959112
1960173
1961168
1962168
1963189
1964167
1965192
1966153
1967147
1968176
1969108
1970118
1971120
1972122
1973121
1974103
197579
197689
197775
1978139
1979149
1980158
1981159
1982127
1983110
1984102
198593
198667
198772
198860
198942
199030
199146
199232
199318
199425
199516
199627
199728
199812
199915
200016
200120
200213
200314
200414
200513
20069
20075
200814
200914
20109
20119
201214
201317
201411
20156
201613
20179
201810
20195
20208
202112
20227
20239
20245
20259

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 121 years between 1903–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

175018001850190019502000Bettina von Arnim, b. 1785Bettina Heinen-Ayech, b. 1937Bettina Brokemper, b. 1950Bettina Rheims, b. 1952Bettina Böhler, b. 1960Bettina Reitz, b. 1962Bettina Röhl, b. 1962Bettina Stark-Watzinger, b. 1968Bettina Wulff, b. 1973Bettina Zimmermann, b. 1975

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 75 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Bettina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202312K#100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.8K#3,187
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6.4K#107
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20246.4K#1,301
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20192.8K#2,681
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.4K#953
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1K#1,574
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022973—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—971#8,451
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—829—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—725#2,129
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025681—

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 805 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bettina?
We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Bettina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Bettina have the most bearers?
Bettina is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled bettina.
How common is Bettina compared with other names?
In Germany, Bettina is the 161st most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Bettina a male or female name?
Bettina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Bettina mean?
Recorded meaning: Pet form of ELISABETH.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bettina” — the 161st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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