Girl · Hebrew, through Italian and German
Bettina
Say it: beh-TEE-nah
Meaning
Italian and German pet form of Elisabeth, from Hebrew Elisheva.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used in German Romantic circles and popular again in the mid-20th century.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1960s
In the United States
- 6,438 babies given this name since 1903
- At its height in 1965, about 1 in 9,200 girls
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Bettine
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Famous bearers
- Bettina von Arnim, German Romantic writer
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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