Beaulah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Beaulah

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,273 babies named Beaulah between 1882 and 1973, spanning 92 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Beaulah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1973. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 81 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Beaulah performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 678 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Beaulah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 161 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Beaulah in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Beaulah 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 2,273 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.