Meaning and history
Bethel is an Old Testament place name meaning “house of God” in Hebrew. It refers to a town north of Jerusalem where Jacob saw his vision of the stairway, and it is occasionally used as a given name.
20062006: 24 births, rank #5,545
2007: 33 births, rank #4,475
2008: 38 births, rank #4,089
2009: 49 births, rank #3,361
2010: 47 births, rank #3,409
20112011: 48 births, rank #3,350
2012: 53 births, rank #3,134
2013: 50 births, rank #3,218
2014: 59 births, rank #2,888
2015: 70 births, rank #2,555
20162016: 79 births, rank #2,366
2017: 66 births, rank #2,635
2018: 82 births, rank #2,238
2019: 57 births, rank #2,891
2020: 54 births, rank #2,966
20212021: 63 births, rank #2,715
2022: 42 births, rank #3,653
2023: 42 births, rank #3,640
2024: 42 births, rank #3,639
20252025: 45 births, rank #3,389
Bethel moved from #956 to #990 for girls between 1938 and 1940. Its highest annual birth count came in 1922, with 119 births.