Beth
The girl's name Beth has been in the national records since 1884, with 159,755 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,389th. About 132,000 Beths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Beth boys named Beth
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 159,755
- Estimated living today
- 132,000
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 65th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,389th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 159,430 / 325
How old the living Beths are
born that year still alive today
Of the 159,755 babies given the name since 1884, about 132,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 39,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Beths
- Beth Behrs (born 1985)American actress
- Beth Ditto (born 1981)American singer
- Beth Hart (born 1972)American blues rock musician
- Beth Mead (born 1995)English footballer
- Beth Phoenix (born 1980)American professional wrestler
- Beth Gibbons (born 1965)British singer
- Beth Broderick (born 1959)American actress
- Mary Beth Hurt (1946–2026)American stage and film actress
People named Beth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Beth is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Beth is most concentrated in Indiana (2.1×), Ohio (2.0×), Pennsylvania (1.9×), Wisconsin (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular girls’ names the year Beth peaked:
Beth elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Beth | 6,440 | 83rd |
| Scotland girls | Beth | 2,654 | 37th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Beth | 924 | 40th |
| Ireland girls | Beth | 847 | 124th |
| France girls | Beth | 15 | 5,283rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Beth among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Beth | 7 | 22 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Beth lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 474 women called Beth were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Beth | 53 | 0.128 | 671 |
| Tarragona | Beth | 51 | 0.117 | 735 |
| Lleida | Beth | 23 | 0.103 | 771 |
| Barcelona | Beth | 305 | 0.100 | 719 |
Listed in 4 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 48 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Beth against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.