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Beautiful

Beautiful is a girl's name that peaked in 2008, when it was the 2,718th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,832nd. About 1,100 Beautifuls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Beautiful

By the numbers

Total US births
1,127
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
12
Peak year
2008
Best rank
2,718th
Rank in 2025
3,832nd
First recorded
1997

How old the living Beautifuls are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,127 babies given the name since 1997, about 1,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 870 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 Beautiful is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Beautiful is most concentrated in Ohio (3.7×), California (3.5×), Texas (3.1×).

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

Names of 2008

The most popular girls’ names the year Beautiful peaked:

All the names of 2008

Related names

Beautiful against another name

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

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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.