Entry № 1400 · English origin

Betty Betty — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pledged to God"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "pledged to god".

Betty is a variant spelling of Betty, from Elizabeth, meaning pledged to God.

Pledged to God — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Betty
Transliteration
Betty
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Betty stands.

Betty does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bettys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Betty.

The number behind Betty.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Betty reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.