Beatrice
Beatrice was given to 583 girls in 2025, #508 among girls’ names; 195,653 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 47,000 Americans named Beatrice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 32 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beatrice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Beatrice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Beatrice is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the senses “she who makes happy” (beatrix) and “female wayfarer, traveller” (viatrix).
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”).
/ˈbiətɹɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Beatrice?
#508 among girls’ names, 2025
Beatrice rose from #570 in 2015 to #508 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.30 to 0.36 per 1,000.
5,994 babies in 1921, the peak
Beatrice peaked in 1921, when 5,994 babies were given it (5,968 girls, #41 among girls’ names). The 583 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 583 | #508 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 520 | #579 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 511 | #587 | 0.32 |
| 2022 | 549 | #554 | 0.33 |
| 2021 | 542 | #564 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 538 | #552 | 0.33 |
| 2019 | 547 | #558 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 542 | #570 | 0.32 |
| 2017 | 548 | #559 | 0.32 |
| 2016 | 560 | #557 | 0.32 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 542 | #570 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 491 | #599 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 485 | #587 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 404 | #697 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 396 | #702 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 321 | #837 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 327 | #851 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 338 | #837 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 308 | #896 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 272 | #961 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 213 | #1,112 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 234 | #1,008 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 210 | #1,064 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 190 | #1,106 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 218 | #984 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 218 | #969 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 196 | #1,033 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 220 | #935 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 182 | #1,049 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 215 | #913 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 198 | #946 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 224 | #871 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 266 | #774 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 286 | #738 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 306 | #696 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 290 | #719 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 303 | #669 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 287 | #671 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 209 | #837 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 258 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 294 | #632 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 235 | #705 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 257 | #669 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 289 | #622 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 338 | #550 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 287 | #634 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 280 | #625 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 293 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 284 | #599 | 0.19 |
| 1976 | 282 | #582 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 322 | #536 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 317 | #527 | 0.22 |
| 1973 | 327 | #519 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 310 | #537 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 428 | #467 | 0.26 |
| 1970 | 423 | #478 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 438 | #462 | 0.26 |
| 1968 | 493 | #427 | 0.30 |
| 1967 | 504 | #416 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 602 | #369 | 0.36 |
| 1965 | 641 | #356 | 0.36 |
| 1964 | 650 | #376 | 0.34 |
| 1963 | 718 | #354 | 0.37 |
| 1962 | 737 | #349 | 0.37 |
| 1961 | 768 | #341 | 0.38 |
| 1960 | 910 | #310 | 0.45 |
| 1959 | 885 | #310 | 0.44 |
| 1958 | 877 | #304 | 0.44 |
| 1957 | 983 | #286 | 0.48 |
| 1956 | 1,007 | #270 | 0.50 |
| 1955 | 1,038 | #259 | 0.53 |
| 1954 | 1,083 | #248 | 0.56 |
| 1953 | 1,095 | #243 | 0.58 |
| 1952 | 1,223 | #225 | 0.66 |
| 1951 | 1,283 | #214 | 0.71 |
| 1950 | 1,271 | #210 | 0.74 |
| 1949 | 1,340 | #203 | 0.78 |
| 1948 | 1,433 | #191 | 0.84 |
| 1947 | 1,465 | #188 | 0.83 |
| 1946 | 1,463 | #180 | 0.93 |
| 1945 | 1,358 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 1944 | 1,579 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1943 | 1,756 | #152 | 1.3 |
| 1942 | 1,772 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1941 | 1,664 | #143 | 1.4 |
| 1940 | 1,730 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 1939 | 1,778 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1938 | 1,910 | #125 | 1.7 |
| 1937 | 1,987 | #120 | 1.9 |
| 1936 | 1,955 | #121 | 1.9 |
| 1935 | 2,243 | #107 | 2.1 |
| 1934 | 2,410 | #99 | 2.3 |
| 1933 | 2,410 | #94 | 2.4 |
| 1932 | 2,787 | #87 | 2.6 |
| 1931 | 2,844 | #85 | 2.7 |
| 1930 | 3,390 | #76 | 3.0 |
| 1929 | 3,574 | #72 | 3.2 |
| 1928 | 3,922 | #70 | 3.4 |
| 1927 | 4,241 | #67 | 3.6 |
| 1926 | 4,518 | #58 | 3.8 |
| 1925 | 4,992 | #50 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 5,271 | #50 | 4.2 |
| 1923 | 5,464 | #46 | 4.5 |
| 1922 | 5,476 | #43 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5,968 | #41 | 4.8 |
| 1920 | 5,804 | #41 | 4.8 |
| 1919 | 5,856 | #41 | 5.2 |
| 1918 | 5,907 | #40 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 5,839 | #39 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5,586 | #38 | 5.3 |
| 1915 | 5,342 | #37 | 5.4 |
| 1914 | 4,232 | #38 | 5.6 |
| 1913 | 3,567 | #37 | 5.7 |
| 1912 | 3,205 | #37 | 5.7 |
| 1911 | 2,522 | #37 | 6.0 |
| 1910 | 2,459 | #36 | 6.2 |
| 1909 | 2,105 | #38 | 6.1 |
| 1908 | 1,997 | #40 | 6.0 |
| 1907 | 1,858 | #44 | 5.8 |
| 1906 | 1,679 | #45 | 5.7 |
| 1905 | 1,661 | #45 | 5.7 |
| 1904 | 1,549 | #45 | 5.6 |
| 1903 | 1,439 | #49 | 5.5 |
| 1902 | 1,429 | #49 | 5.4 |
| 1901 | 1,183 | #53 | 4.9 |
| 1900 | 1,382 | #56 | 4.6 |
| 1899 | 1,061 | #56 | 4.6 |
| 1898 | 1,122 | #60 | 4.3 |
| 1897 | 942 | #68 | 4.0 |
| 1896 | 870 | #70 | 3.7 |
| 1895 | 814 | #73 | 3.5 |
| 1894 | 684 | #76 | 3.1 |
| 1893 | 564 | #85 | 2.6 |
| 1892 | 541 | #90 | 2.5 |
| 1891 | 485 | #91 | 2.6 |
| 1890 | 417 | #98 | 2.2 |
| 1889 | 352 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 1888 | 316 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1887 | 262 | #116 | 1.8 |
| 1886 | 192 | #137 | 1.3 |
| 1885 | 188 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 1884 | 167 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 1883 | 126 | #146 | 1.1 |
| 1882 | 123 | #144 | 1.1 |
| 1881 | 87 | #156 | 0.95 |
| 1880 | 87 | #154 | 1.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Beatrice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Beatrice has been given almost only to girls: 733 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Beatrice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beatrice, and how old are they?
47,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 24% of the 195,653 Americans ever recorded as Beatrice. The median Beatrice alive today is 66 years old; half are between 32 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 58,355 people named Beatrice (58,263 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55,957 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10,200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 15,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,920 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Beatrice born?
The states with the most babies named Beatrice are New York, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 20,907 | #473 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 11,723 | #1,066 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 11,563 | #443 | 0.9× |
| California | 8,181 | #593 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 6,372 | #394 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 6,299 | #288 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 5,994 | #431 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 5,896 | #847 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 5,883 | #577 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5,236 | #451 | 1.0× |
Where Beatrice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beatrice is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Beatrice 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 195,873 babies since 1880, Beatrice is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 583 of their 583 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Beatrice
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 Beatrice and names like it
- Compare Beatrice and BeatryceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBeatrice peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beatrice since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Beatrice: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Beatrice.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Beatrice alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.