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Beauden vs Beaux

American parents have registered 2,796 Beauxes since 1880, against 727 Beaudens. Beaux is still ahead, with 251 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Beauden Beaux

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

Beaux has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1977 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Beauden had 8 and Beaux had 16.

Side by side

  Beauden Beaux
Total US births 7272,796
Most in one year 100251
Babies in 2025 98251
Estimated living today 7202,800
Median age today 46
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 1,694th boys970th boys
Rank in 2025 1,677th970th
First recorded 20041977
Girls / boys 0 / 727255 / 2,541

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 Beauxes alive today are over 6; half the Beaudens are over 4. That is 2 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 Beauden Beaux
England and Wales 743387
Ireland 1256
Scotland 486

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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