Beata
Beata was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 956 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beata by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Beata mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Beata is “a female given name from Latin”
Learned borrowing from Latin Beāta.
/bɛˈa.ta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Beata?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,729, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1916, the peak
Beata peaked in 1916, when 26 girls were given it, #1,447 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,729 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,438 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,074 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,009 | 5.1 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,369 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,553 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,419 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,608 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,184 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,028 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 10 | #10,708 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,545 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,008 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,540 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,142 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,949 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,294 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,419 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,422 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,644 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,849 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,645 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,575 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,472 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,907 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,106 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,336 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,414 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,991 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,389 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,231 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,491 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,567 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,913 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,264 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,791 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,241 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,077 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,824 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,158 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,568 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,491 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,103 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,877 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,118 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,630 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,510 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,064 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,632 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,859 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,513 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,288 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,651 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,900 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,210 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,421 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,805 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,616 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,828 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,604 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,678 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,199 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,752 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,403 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,341 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,436 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,065 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,517 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,078 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,107 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,783 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,348 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,908 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,070 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,826 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,273 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,173 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,958 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,122 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,399 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,037 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,709 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,447 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,164 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,546 | 23.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,566 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,174 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,240 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,556 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,100 | 15.7 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,618 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,621 | 22.7 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,584 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,285 | 30.0 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,569 | 21.3 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,459 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Beata a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Beata has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Beata: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beata, and how old are they?
An estimated 610 Americans named Beata and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 29 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,652 people named Beata (4,651 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 627 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Beata born?
The states with the most babies named Beata are Illinois, Minnesota and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 123 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Beata is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beata is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Beata with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 1,042,478 babies since 1880, Beata is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 239 babies recorded by SSA was a Beata (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Beata
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Beata and names like it
- Compare Beata and BettyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sBeata peaked in 1916.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beata since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Beata: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Beata.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Beata alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.