NAME OF THE DAY: Betty

Today is cartoon icon Betty Boop's 95th birthday 🎉 — so I will talk about her name that is as classic and cute as her: 📛Betty❗   

The name Betty is of Hebrew origin meaning "pledged to God." But it is also actually a shortened form of the name 📛Elizabeth!  

Nameberry says on Betty: "Betty's image is still very World War II, when Betty Grable was a hot pin-up girl and Betty was the all-American girls' name blanketing the country, second only to Mary from 1928 to 1934. We may be on the precipice of a Betty wave, thanks to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, who recently chose it for their third daughter."     

Sons have shockingly, reportedly been named 📛Betty from 1904 - 1934 with a total of 3,619 boy Bettys! 🤯 I'm not a fan of using Betty as a unisex name 🙅🏾‍♀️ but... Bet or Bett is a 😎 cool little nickname too.     

It's incredulous Betty once was the #2 🥳 most Popular Baby Name for girls in the 1930s (when Betty Boop was born 🖋). Yet today, Betty's name in fact is 🛇 "not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth beginning with 2000" via SSA's name popularity list. I find this sort of shocking. 🤯 Despite being an old-fashioned name, I assumed Betty was at least in the top 500 at some point up to the 2000s. 😞     

The states where the most Bettys live:📍California and 📍West Virginia. But in 📍Nebraska, there is an adorable 📛Betty Club, where "Only women named Betty join this club: ‘It is very nice for the Bettys’." The social club with only Betty named women, was founded by Betty Krueger in 1994 because she had free time after retirement and “it just seemed like a fun thing to do." To join: 📢“Either you’re named Betty, or you go by the name Betty" and it is open to Bettys of all ages. The profile piece on this 😎 cool club says: "Over the past 31 years, the club has congregated four times a year, growing to 25 members at one point. The Betty Club has 15 members, as well as several honorary members who are unable to meet in-person." I'm very jealous of Betty Club 😭 and if I were named Betty I would of course love to join. 🙋🏾‍♀️ I wonder if they take members who just really love the name Betty? 🤔 

I love the name Betty. 💗 My 😍 obsession with Betty Boop is a big reason. But even so, Betty is just a sweet, nice name. 👌🏾 The variations of Betty are really pretty too: 📛Bette and 📛Bettie especially. It is because of Betty Boop however, I've thought of naming a future daughter Betty. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I've met only one Betty in my life so far. She was a tattoo artist (I don't know if Betty Rose 🌹 was her tattooist name or her real name however) and I wanted her to tattoo her namesake Betty Boop on me but unfortunately she didn't get to. 😞 The other Betty I knew of, she was the mother of someone I was dating, which was more incentive for me at the time to name a future daughter Betty (📛Betty 📛Lou I had in mind, Lou being my mother's name). 

I really do hope Betty somehow starts to rise in name popularity 📈 in future decades to come. 🤞🏾 Betty is such a timeless name that it deserves a spot back onto the Popular Baby Names list. Here's to the beautiful name 📛Betty seeing a resurgence in due time. ⏳      

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛BETTYS:

📛Betty Crocker  (baking brand fictional character)

📛Betty White 👵😂 (comedienne)  

📛Betty Ford  (former first lady, wife of President Ford)

📛Betty Friedan 📕 /  (author & activist)

📛Betty Draper 👱🏻‍♀️ (T.V. character on Mad Men)

📛Betty Suarez 🤓 (T.V. character on Ugly Betty)

📛Alison "Betty Boo" Clarkson 🎤(rapper inspired by Betty Boop) 

📛Jessica "Betty Who" Newham 🎤(singer)   

📌👀Reddit 📛namenerds🤓 Community Thread: "Betty or Bettie" 

  https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/1146e8z/betty_or_bettie/

📌📛Name Play's📈 Popularity of Betty's Variations: 📛Bettie, 📛Bettye, 📛Betti, 📛Bettey

https://nameplay.org/names/combined/popularity/Betty  

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Betty:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/B/BE/BETTY/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Betty: 👍 OR /10