Bethsaida
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- beth-SAY-ih-duh
- Origin
- Aramaic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Bethsaida is a girls' name of Aramaic origin, meaning “house of fishing”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Bethsaida mean?
Aramaic: biblical place name, Aramaic beth 'house' + tsaida 'fishing'
“house of fishing”
Bethsaida was a town on the Sea of Galilee, home of the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip.
Is Bethsaida a girl's or a boy's name?
Bethsaida is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bethsaida in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Bethsaida, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2005, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.
Half of all the girls named Bethsaida in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bethsaida in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,480 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,108 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1975 | 6 | #7,982 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,773 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,421 |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,004 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,060 |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,624 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,816 |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,407 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,535 |
Nicknames for Bethsaida
- Beth 20 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Bethsaida
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Safa, Samira, Aaliyah, Zaira, Salma, Fatoumata, Zahara, Zamira, Khadija, Hadassah, Safiya
Names related to Bethsaida
More Aramaic names
Thomas, Tommy, Martha, Barnaby, Barney, Tabitha, Tomas, Tadeo, Tom, Thaddeus, Tomos, Marta, Tommie, Tomi, Saphira, Tommaso
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Bethsaida: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bethsaida, updated 20 October 2026.