Beatrice — #581 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Beatrice

The Social Security Administration has registered 194,331 babies named Beatrice between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Beatrice currently holds the #581 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 5,968 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Beatrice performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 49,230 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Beatrice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 20,871 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Beatrice in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Beatrice in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 194,331 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.