Betina

Betina is a Danish feminine name functioning as a contracted pet form of Elisabetta or its Scandinavian equivalents, ultimately tracing back to the Hebrew name Elisheba, meaning my God is an oath or my God is abundance. The name entered broader European use partly through the influence of the German and Italian diminutive Bettina, famously associated with Bettina von Arnim, the nineteenth-century German Romantic writer. Betina represents the Scandinavian spelling adaptation of that same diminutive tradition. Closely related forms include Bettina, Betty, and Elisabeth.