Bee — boys' name

What the Data Says About Bee

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,023 babies named Bee between 1881 and 2000, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bee currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 41 babies received it in a single year. Bee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 669 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bee performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 266 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Bee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 223 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Bee in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bee 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 1,023 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.