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Betty Boop's 95th birthday ๐ — so I will talk about her name that is as classic and cute as her: ๐Betty❗
The name Betty is of Hebrew origin meaning "pledged to God." But it is also actually a shortened form of the name ๐Elizabeth!
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 ๐Betty from 1904 - 1934 with a total of 3,619 boy Bettys! ๐คฏ I'm not a fan of using Betty as a unisex name ๐
๐พ♀️ but... Bet or Bett is a ๐ cool little nickname too.
It's incredulous Betty once was the #2 ๐ฅณ most Popular Baby Name for girls in the 1930s (when Betty Boop was born ๐ฏ️๐). Yet today, Betty's name in fact is ๐ "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. ๐คฏ Despite being an old-fashioned name, I assumed Betty was at least in the top 500 at some point up to the 2000s. ๐
The states where the most Bettys live:๐California and ๐West Virginia. But in ๐Nebraska, there is an adorable ๐Betty 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: ๐ข“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 ๐ 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 ๐ญ and if I were named Betty I would of course love to join. ๐๐พ♀️ I wonder if they take members who just really love the name Betty? ๐ค
I
love the name
Betty. ๐ My ๐ obsession with
Betty Boop is a big reason. But even so,
Betty is just a sweet, nice name. ๐๐พ The variations of
Betty are really pretty too:
๐Bette (a la
Davis๐๐ฅ) and
๐Bettie (a la
Page๐๐) especially.
Betty with one 't': ✨
๐Bety — is ✨new to me.
It is because of
Betty Boop however, I've thought of naming a future daughter
Betty.
๐คท๐พ♀️ I've met only one
Betty in my life so far. She was a tattoo artist (I don't know if
Betty Rose ๐น 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. ๐ 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 (๐Betty ๐Lou I had in mind, Lou being my mother's name).
I really
do
hope
Betty somehow starts to rise in name popularity
๐ in future decades to come.
๐ค๐พ Betty is such a timeless name that it deserves a spot back onto the
Popular Baby Names list. Here's to the beautiful name
๐Betty seeing a resurgence in due time. ⏳
⭐FAMOUS & ๐NOTEWORTHY ๐BETTYS:
๐Betty Crocker ๐ง (baking brand fictional character)
๐Betty White ๐ต๐ (comedienne)
๐Betty Shabazz ๐ฉ๐พ๐ฆฑ (wife of Malcolm X)
๐Betty Ford 
(former first lady, wife of President Ford)
๐Betty Friedan ๐ / ⚖️ (author & activist)
๐Betty Broderick ๐จ (malefactor)
๐Betty Neumar ๐จ (malefactor)
๐Elizabeth "Betty" Draper Francis ๐ฑ๐ป♀️๐บ (T.V. character on Mad Men, played by January Jones)
๐Betty "Rizzo" ๐ฉ๐ป (film character in Grease)
๐Betty Suarez ๐ค๐บ (T.V. character on Ugly Betty)
๐Betty Rubble ๐ฉ๐ป๐ฏ️ (cartoon character on The Flintstones)
๐Betty Cooper ๐ฑ๐ป♀️๐ฏ️ (cartoon character in Archie comics)
๐Betty Barrett aka "Atomic Betty" ๐ฉ๐ฆฐ๐ฏ️ (cartoon character in animated show Atomic Betty)
๐Alison "Betty Boo" Clarkson ๐ค(rapper inspired by Betty Boop)
๐Jessica "Betty Who" Newham ๐ค(singer)
๐Betty Shamieh ✍๐ป (writer)
๐Elizabeth "Betty Gilpin" ๐ฅ (actress)
๐Amina "Betty Klait" ๐ฅ (actress)
๐Betty Furness ๐ฅ (actress)
๐Betty Davis [born Betty Gray Mabry] ๐ค(singer)
๐Betty Carter [born Lillie Mae Jones] ๐ค(singer)
๐Betty Moffitt (mother of ๐พ tennis player Billie Jean King)
๐Betty A. Bridges ๐ฅ (actress & mother of ๐บ actor Todd Bridges)
๐Betty Gabriel ๐ฅ (actress)
๐Betty Brooks ๐ฅ (actress)
๐Betty Ann Ong ✈️ (late flight attendant onboard hijacked Flight 11 on 9/11)
๐Amy "Betty Pack" Elizabeth Thorpe ๐ต️♀️ (American spy for 
British MI6)
๐Betty McCollum (Congresswoman)
๐Betty Yee (politician)
๐Betty Currie ๐ฉ๐พ๐ผ (former personal secretary to former President Bill Clinton)
๐"Betty" ๐บ (YouTube content creator of channel: @stillbecomingbetter)
๐"Fyah Betty" ๐ฅ๐๐พ (dancer)
๐๐Reddit ๐namenerds๐ค Community Thread: "Betty or Bettie"
https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/1146e8z/betty_or_bettie/
๐๐Name Play's๐ Popularity of Betty's Variations: ๐Bettie, ๐Bettye, ๐Betti, ๐Bettey
๐STATS ON THE NAME ๐Betty:
https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/B/BE/BETTY/index.html
☔๐IRN RATING OF ๐Betty: ๐ OR /10
the name ๐Adora — it's just too cute of a name especially if using it as a ๐princess name (FYI I knew of ๐กShe-Ra growing up and I never realized her name was Adora! ๐คฏ) for a little ๐girl. But it's also very precious and special if using it for the ๐spiritual meaning behind the wonderful name. 
