Girl · Hebrew, through English pet forms
Betsy
Say it: BET-see
Meaning
Pet form of Elizabeth, from Hebrew 'my God is an oath'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Very common in the Revolutionary and Federal eras.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 48,579 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1959, about 1 in 1,500 girls
- 87 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Betsey
Famous bearers
- Betsy Ross, Philadelphia upholsterer of flag legend
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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