Betzaida
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- bet-SY-dah
- Origin
- Aramaic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Betzaida 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 Betzaida mean?
Aramaic: Spanish form of Bethsaida, a town in the Gospels
“house of fishing”
John's Gospel names Bethsaida, by the Sea of Galilee, as the town of the apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip.
Is Betzaida a girl's or a boy's name?
Betzaida 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 Betzaida 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 Betzaida, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 160 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.
Half of all the girls named Betzaida in the US since 1880 were born between 1980 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.
Betzaida in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,979 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,332 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,195 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,709 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,085 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,778 |
| 2005 | 154 | #1,392 |
| 2004 | 160 | #1,328 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,692 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,614 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,966 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,235 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,491 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,580 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,949 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,272 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,330 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,184 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,808 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,456 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,714 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,531 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,800 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,902 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,637 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,485 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,001 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,411 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,683 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,121 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,177 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,266 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,871 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,843 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,455 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,844 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,492 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,548 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,691 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,538 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,292 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,792 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,389 |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,917 |
Names like Betzaida
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Brianna, Bianca, Samira, Samara, Alyssa, Alaina, Briana, Aliza, Samantha, Sabrina, Amina
Names related to Betzaida
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, “Betzaida: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/betzaida, updated 20 October 2026.