Beatrice

What Beatrice means

Means “she who makes happy”

Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (“she who makes happy”), or 2) from beata, influenced by viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Beatrice” (revision 94050291), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Beatrice?

US: Rising: up from #569 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #93 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1910, when 2,459 girls got the name (#36 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,757 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 632 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,789 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (3.1 per 1,000 girls), ME (2.57 per 1,000 girls), NH (1.84 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Beatrice is #508 in the US and #121 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Beatrice were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Beatriz120 US · 24 E&W
• Beatris0 US · 8 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Beats

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Beatrice

Girls

• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Leona#429Feminine form of Leo, meaning “lion”^*
• Rosalee#954Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #954 vs #4,867 in 2025
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Renata#481“reborn”^*

For a brother

• Lionel#659“lion”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Rex#859“king”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Beatrice’s. Rank is US 2025.