Beatrice

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Beatrice boys named Beatrice

By the numbers

Total US births

195,653

Estimated living today

48,000

Median age today

65

Peak year

1921

Best rank

41st

Rank in 2025

508th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

194,920 / 733

How old the living Beatrices are

born that year still alive today

Of the 195,653 babies given the name since 1880, about 48,000 are alive — 25 in every hundred. Roughly 8,700 of them are children and 25,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.

Where the name comes from

Origin Latin

Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (“she who makes happy”), or 2) from beata, influenced by viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Beatrices

• Princess Beatrice of York (born 1988)elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
• Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857–1944)youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
• Beatrice Chebet (born 2000)Kenyan long-distance runner born 2000
• Beatrice Straight (1914–2001)American actress
• Beatrice Webb (1858–1943)English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer
• Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981)New Zealand astronomer
• Beatrice of Portugal (1373–1409)Queen of Castile, Pretender Queen of Portugal
• Beatrice of Naples (1457–1508)Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia

People named Beatrice with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Beatrice is most common

• NY20,907
• TX11,723
• PA11,563
• CA8,181
• MI6,372
• MA6,299
• OH5,994
• NC5,896
• IL5,883
• NJ5,236

Relative to how many babies each state records, Beatrice is most concentrated in Vermont (2.4×), Mississippi (2.2×), Maine (2.0×), Hawaii (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular girls’ names the year Beatrice peaked:

• Mary
• Dorothy
• Helen
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Virginia

All the names of 1921

Beatrice elsewhere

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.

Beatrice: births by region

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.

By canton, Beatrice is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.27% of children were given it – 166 of them.

Beatrice: rank by region

In 2025, Beatrice was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Beatrice was among the 10 most common names in 16 regions of Italy, and first in 2 of them. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2019, Beatrice was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Beatrice appears in the lists for Isole (4th), Nord-ovest (5th), Sud (7th), Nord-est (8th) and Centro (9th).

In 2021, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Beatrice appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (223rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – 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.

Beatrice by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Beatrice 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.

Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,310 who carry it, 320 go by it.

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.

Where Beatrice lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 833 women called Beatrice were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 24 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 28 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Beau
• Beatriz
• Beatrix
• Bear
• Beaux
• Bea
• Beaulah
• Beatris
• Beautiful
• Beauford
• Beata
• Beauty

Beatrice against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Beatrice vs Beau
• Beatrice vs Beatriz
• Beatrice vs Beatrix
• Beatrice vs Bear
• Beatrice vs Beaux
• Beatrice vs Bea

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