Beautiful
Beautiful was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,840 among girls’ names; 1,127 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Beautiful and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beautiful by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Beautiful?
#3,840 among girls’ names, 2025
Beautiful fell from #3,260 in 2015 to #3,840 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 28.0 to 23.6 per million.
67 babies in 2008, the peak
Beautiful peaked in 2008, when 67 girls were given it, #2,724 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,840 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,904 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,337 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,655 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,942 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,975 | 33.4 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,085 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,405 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,313 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,017 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,260 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,331 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,806 | 34.8 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,102 | 30.7 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,849 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,908 | 33.2 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,899 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,724 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,864 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,988 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,084 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,001 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,775 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,883 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,950 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,537 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,001 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Beautiful a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Beautiful has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Beautiful: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beautiful, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,127 Americans ever recorded as Beautiful. The median Beautiful alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 782 people named Beautiful (765 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 877 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 522 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 596 |
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 Beautiful born?
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 Beautiful 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,318 babies since 1880, Beautiful is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 38 babies (100%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful | 1,127 | 38 | 2008 |
| Beautifull | 191 | under 5 | 2005 |
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 Beautiful
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 Beautiful and names like it
- Compare Beautiful and BeautifullBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBeautiful peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beautiful since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Beautiful.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Beautiful alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.