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Beatrix vs Beauden

American parents have registered 4,110 Beatrixes since 1880, against 727 Beaudens. Beatrix is still ahead, with 162 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beatrix against Beauden, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beatrix Beauden

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Beatrix has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1883 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Beatrix had 160 and Beauden had 100.

Side by side

  Beatrix Beauden
Total US births 4,110727
Most in one year 262100
Babies in 2025 16298
Estimated living today 3,800720
Median age today 94
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 984th girls1,694th boys
Rank in 2025 1,359th1,677th
First recorded 18832004
Girls / boys 4,110 / 00 / 727

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Beatrixes alive today are over 9; half the Beaudens are over 4. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Beatrix Beauden
England and Wales 4,490743
Ireland 38125
Scotland 8148
Northern Ireland 1319

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Beatrix and Beauden.