Meaning and history
Bette is a diminutive of Elizabeth, and a well-known bearer was the American actress Bette Davis (1908–1989).
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: 7 births, rank #13,924
2008: no US SSA record for this spelling
2009: 5 births, rank #17,294
2010: 6 births, rank #14,959
20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: 5 births, rank #16,869
2013: 7 births, rank #13,150
2014: 8 births, rank #11,931
2015: 9 births, rank #10,866
20162016: 14 births, rank #7,988
2017: no US SSA record for this spelling
2018: 11 births, rank #9,151
2019: 5 births, rank #15,539
2020: 7 births, rank #12,142
20212021: 6 births, rank #13,464
2022: 8 births, rank #11,231
2023: 15 births, rank #7,247
2024: 11 births, rank #8,946
20252025: 8 births, rank #10,917
Bette moved from #889 to #992 for girls between 1961 and 1962. Its highest annual birth count came in 1924, with 1,736 births.