Beatrice
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Beatrice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Italian form of Beatrix; used in Ireland, meaning 'happy'.
- FRFrance≈1 in 994(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.5K
- USUnited States1 in 5.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Beatrice itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #124 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 456 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 994 (inferred from the name graph)
444,440 named Beatriz, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Beatriz in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of Beatrix; used in Ireland, meaning 'happy'.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beatrice counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #39 | 444,440as Beatriz | 1 in 476 | 444K | Beatriz | 242 |
| NG Nigeria | #340 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Beatrice | 82 |
| ES Spain | #67 | 122,329as Beatriz | 1 in 409 | 123K | Beatriz | 248 |
| AR Argentina | #8 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 468 | 349 | Beatriz | 154 |
| CO Colombia | #120 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 711 | 42 | Beatriz | 168 |
| FR France | #154 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 994 | 131K | Beatrice | 357 |
| US United States | #356 | 58,355 | 1 in 5.7K | 58K | Beatrice | 456 |
| PT Portugal | #47 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 215 | 551 | Beatriz | 175 |
| HU Hungary | — | 14,696as Beatrix | 1 in 665 | 15K | — | 1 |
444,440 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Beatrice is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Latin; "blessed one," "she who brings joy". Variant: Beatrix, name of a 4th-century saint.
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In English, from OF Beatris, Bietriz; first attested Richard filius Beatricie 1212 Cur (Yorkshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
The Italian form of the name Beatrix. The name is sometimes used in Ireland, and means ‘happy’. Bec [Beag] (m) ‘small’. The name, or perhaps the nickname of an early Irish saint known as ‘the Prophet’. Becan [Beacan] (m) ‘little one’. St Becan founded a monastery in Westmeath in the sixth century. Beheen [Baothin] (m) A diminutive of baoth, ‘fool’.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, relationship name from the Middle English and Old French female personal name Beatris, Bietriz. This is the name of a 4th-century saint, originally Viatrix ‘(female) wayfarer’, altered to resemble beatus ‘blessed’.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Italian and French form of Beatrix, occasionally used in England during the Middle Ages, and strongly revived in the 19th century. It is most famous as the name of Dante’s beloved. Short forms: Bea, Bee. Pet forms: Beat(t)ie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Béatrice of Vermandoisb. 880French queen consort
- Beatrice Cencib. 1577ITItalian noblewoman and murderer
- Mary of Modenab. 1658ITnot in their usual nameQueen consort of England (1685-1688)
- Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdomb. 1857GByoungest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1857–1944)
- Beatrice Straightb. 1914USAmerican actress (1914-2001)
- Bea Arthurb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and comedienne (1922–2009)
- Stephanie Beatrizb. 1981ARArgentine-American actress
- Lily Allenb. 1985GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and actress
- Princess Beatrice of Yorkb. 1988GBelder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson
- Bea Millerb. 1999USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 124 sources across 65 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 58K | #815 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,591 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.3K | #7,732 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 833 | #3,242 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 698 | #1,752 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 583 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 390 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 370 | #1,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 92 | #815 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 8 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Beatrice mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian form of Beatrix; used in Ireland, meaning 'happy'. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Beatrice?
- In the etymology graph, Beatriz, Bea and Beatrix are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Beatrice a male or female name?
- Beatrice is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Beatrice have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 444 thousand people named Beatriz, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Beatrice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 58,355 people named Beatrice in 2020, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Beatrice compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Beatrice is the 39th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beatriceThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Beatrice” — the 39th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.