Bea
The girl's name Bea has been in the national records since 1883, with 2,342 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,214th. About 1,400 Beas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bea
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,342
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 2,134th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,214th
- First recorded
- 1883
How old the living Beas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,342 babies given the name since 1883, about 1,400 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 370 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Beas
- Bea Arthur (1922–2009)American actress and comedienne
- Bea Miller (born 1999)American singer
- Bea Benaderet (1906–1968)American actress
- Bea Alonzo (born 1987)Filipino actress
- Bea Rose Santiago (born 1990)Binibining Pilipinas-International 2013
- Bea Uusma (born 1966)Swedish author, illustrator and medical doctor
- Bea Binene (born 1997)Filipino actress
- Bea Palya (born 1976)Hungarian singer
People named Bea with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bea is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bea is most concentrated in California (4.9×), New York (2.9×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Bea peaked:
Bea elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Bea | 639 | 703rd |
| Ireland girls | Bea | 57 | 372nd |
| France girls | Bea +1 spelling | 30 | 6,945th |
| Scotland girls | Bea | 29 | 540th |
| Switzerland girls | Bea | 26 | 1,310th |
| Belgium girls | Bea | 10 | 1,371st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Bea: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Bea | 13 | 0.001% | 864th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Bea | 6 | 0.001% | 615th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Bea | 6 | 0.009% | 162nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Bea | 1 | 0.027% | 4th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Bea: rank by region
In 2024, Bea was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Bea | 839 | 5 |
In 2016, Bea was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Bea | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Bea by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Bea among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Bea +1 spelling | 1,163 | 1,439 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Bea against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.