Beau
Beau is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 60th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 60th. About 65,000 Beaus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Beau boys named Beau
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 66,603
- Estimated living today
- 65,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 60th
- Rank in 2025
- 60th
- First recorded
- 1932
- Girls / boys
- 1,011 / 65,592
How old the living Beaus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 66,603 babies given the name since 1932, about 65,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 45,000 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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
Shortened from surname type given names such as Beauregard or Beaumont, or from the word beau.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Beaus
- Beau Bridges (born 1941)American actor
- Beau Biden (1969–2015)American politician and lawyer
- Beau Mirchoff (born 1989)Canadian actor
- Beau Garrett (born 1982)American actress and model
- Beau Brummell (1778–1840)English man of fashion
- Beau Willimon (born 1977)American playwright
- Beau Knapp (born 1989)American actor and film producer
- Beau Hoopman (born 1980)American rower
People named Beau with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Beau is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Beau is most concentrated in Montana (3.0×), Idaho (3.0×), Utah (2.9×), Wyoming (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Beau peaked:
Beau elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Beau | 7,209 | 113th |
| England and Wales girls | Beau | 3,313 | 169th |
| New Zealand boys | Beau | 1,129 | 40th |
| Belgium boys | Beau | 590 | 309th |
| Belgium girls | Beau | 454 | 336th |
| Ireland boys | Beau | 307 | 127th |
| Scotland boys | Beau | 223 | 160th |
| Scotland girls | Beau | 194 | 278th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Beau | 118 | 150th |
| Ireland girls | Beau | 82 | 427th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Beau | 7 | 365th |
| France boys | Beau | 5 | 5,658th |
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.
Beau: rank by region
In 2025, Beau was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Beau | 409 | 14 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Beau appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Beau 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Beau | 1,945 | 2,472 |
| the Netherlands girls | Beau | 1,774 | 2,368 |
| Finland boys | Beau | 6 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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
Beau 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.