About the name Beth
Beth belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Beth first appears in Social Security records in 1884. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #65 in 1961, and in 2024 53 babies received the name — 159,385 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.