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Beatrix

Latin, meaning “female wayfarer, traveller”*

CommonRare
Rank 2015: #1,183, 2016: #1,179, 2017: #1,148, 2018: #1,150, 2019: #984, 2020: #1,165, 2021: #1,122, 2022: #1,227, 2023: #1,402, 2024: #1,369, 2025: #1,3591 in 9,921 girls in the US, 2025#1,359 · falling · was #1,183 in 2015
CommonRare
Rank 2015: #207, 2016: #168, 2017: #152, 2018: #153, 2019: #164, 2020: #164, 2021: #164, 2022: #193, 2023: #214, 2024: #227, 2025: #2651 in 1,464 girls in E&W, 2025#265 · falling · was #207 in 2015

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What Beatrix means

Latin, meaning “female wayfarer, traveller”

From viātrīx (“female wayfarer, traveller”), altered under influence from beātus, beāta (“happy, fortunate”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Beatrix” (revision 89872518), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Beatrix?

US 2025
#1359
162 babies
▲ 10 vs 2024
England & Wales 2025
#265
173 babies
▼ 38 vs 2024
Scotland
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Not listed

US: Falling: down from #1183 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #207 in 2015.

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US, 1880–2025England & Wales, 1996–2025Babies per 1,000 girls born. Dot: biggest US share (2019)

Biggest US share so far: 2019, when 262 girls got the name (#984 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

  • About 1 in 9,921 baby girls in the US in 2025
  • About 1 in 1,464 baby girls in England and Wales 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 OR (0.54 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.31 per 1,000 girls), PA (0.24 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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FewerMore · grey: under 5 babies, not listed

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

US vs UK

Beatrix is #1359 in the US and #265 in England & Wales (2025).

Rank 2025BabiesHow commonRank 2015
US#13591621 in 9,921#1183
England & Wales#2651731 in 1,464#207
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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 Beatrix were girls.

GirlsBoys
US 20251620
England & Wales 20251730
US all years since 18804,1100
England & Wales since 19964,4900

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

Nicknames

  • Beats

Listed on Wiktionary under “diminutives”.

If you like Beatrix

Girls

  • Stella#52“star”
  • Lucy#24“light”
  • Camilla#361Editor’s note Up from #374 in 2015 to #361 in 2025 in the US
  • Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”
  • Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025
  • Harmony#276From the word “harmony”

For a brother

  • Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
  • Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US
  • Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”
  • Titus#358“honorable”
  • Cassius#582Editor’s note Up from #644 in 2015 to #582 in 2025 in the US
  • Julian#25“Roman personal name”

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 Beatrix’s. Rank is US 2025.

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