Bebe
Bebe reached its high-water mark in 1932 at number 899, and has been recorded 1,579 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 580 Bebes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Bebe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,579
- Estimated living today
- 580
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1932
- Best rank
- 899th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1904
How old the living Bebes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,579 babies given the name since 1904, about 580 are alive — 37 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 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
In most cases, the name is a diminutive of Beatrice.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Bebes
- Bebe Rexha (born 1989)American singer
- Bebe Neuwirth (born 1958)American actress
- Bebé (born 1990)cap verde footballer
- Bebe (born 1978)Spanish singer
- Bebe Daniels (1901–1971)American entertainer
- Bebe Buell (born 1953)American model and singer
- Bebe Wood (born 2001)American actress
- Bebe Nanaki (1464–1518)elder sister of Guru Nanak
People named Bebe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Bebe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Bebe is most concentrated in Georgia (4.4×), Texas (4.1×), New York (3.2×), California (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1932
The most popular girls’ names the year Bebe peaked:
Bebe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Bebe | 230 | 1,472nd |
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.
Bebe 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 | Bebe | — | 9 |
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.
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.