Beatrice
Beatrice is ranked 579th among girls in 2024 (518 births). Its best rank was 36th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- #579up 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5180.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19215,968 births
- Best rank
- #36in 1910
- Since 1880
- 194,331people given the name
The story in the numbers
194,331 girls have been named Beatrice in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 5,968 births — 0.48% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 599 → 579).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 25%. It has spent 139 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 45 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Beatrice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,900 | |
| 1890s | 7,500 | |
| 1900s | 16,282 | |
| 1910s | 44,515 | |
| 1920s | 49,230 | |
| 1930s | 23,714 | |
| 1940s | 15,560 | |
| 1950s | 10,745 | |
| 1960s | 6,460 | |
| 1970s | 3,266 | |
| 1980s | 2,757 | |
| 1990s | 2,383 | |
| 2000s | 2,528 | |
| 2010s | 4,836 | |
| 2020s | 2,655 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Beatrice was the 41st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Beatrice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Idellpeak 1921
- Garnetpeak 1918
- Cleopeak 1920
- Irenepeak 1921
- Helenpeak 1918
- Alinepeak 1920
- Marguerittepeak 1919
- Verapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.