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betts Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic or metronymic from the medieval personal name Bett, a short form of Bartholomew, Beatrice, or Elizabeth.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Betz.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of betts Families in the US in 1920
Number of betts families
 186-369
 63-185
 1-62
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