Beautiful — #3931 US girls' name
1,087 babies named Beautiful in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 78% of names given to girls today.
45% of everyone ever named Beautiful was born in this single decade.
67 babies were named Beautiful in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Beautiful
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,087 babies named Beautiful between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Beautiful currently holds the #3931 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 67 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Beautiful performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 493 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Beautiful shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 110 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Beautiful in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Beautiful 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 1,087 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.
Beautiful at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Beautiful popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1997
- Peak year (2008)
- 67
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
Currently ranks #3931 among girls.
1,087 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 67 births in a single year.
Beautiful by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 493 births that decade — 45% of Beautiful's all-time total
Beautiful decade highlights
- Peak decade 493 births
- Runner-up 363 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Beautiful's strongest decade
493 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Beautiful by state
Where Beautiful concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 110 | 10.1% |
| #2 | Texas | | 65 | 6.0% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 44 | 4.0% |
| #4 | Georgia | | 18 | 1.7% |
| #5 | Florida | | 14 | 1.3% |
| #6 | New York | | 13 | 1.2% |
| #7 | North Carolina | | 10 | 0.9% |
| #8 | Illinois | | 6 | 0.6% |
110 of 1,087 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 10 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 10.1% of nationwide
- Texas 6.0% of nationwide
- Ohio 4.0% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.7% of nationwide
- Florida 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 10 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Beautiful appears in 10 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.