Beloved — girls' name
33 babies named Beloved in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
55% of everyone ever named Beloved was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Beloved in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Beloved
The Social Security Administration has registered 33 babies named Beloved between 2001 and 2023, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Beloved currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Beloved performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Beloved shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Beloved 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 33 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.
Beloved at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Beloved popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2001
- Peak year (2001)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
33 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 6 births in a single year.
Beloved by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 18 births that decade — 55% of Beloved's all-time total
Beloved decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Beloved's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 55% of all-time use.
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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, 2001–2023 (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.