Beaufort — boys' name

What the Data Says About Beaufort

The Social Security Administration has registered 36 babies named Beaufort between 1918 and 1976, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Beaufort currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1976. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 7 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Beaufort performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 13 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Beaufort shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Beaufort in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Beaufort 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 36 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.