Beattie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the personal name Beattie, a Scottish pet-form of Bartholomew; or from Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbiti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Beattie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.1K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 395 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the personal name Beattie, a Scottish pet-form of Bartholomew; or from Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Beattie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Beattie | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | #590 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | listed | Beattie | 238 |
| US United States | — | 8,993 | 1 in 37K | 9K | Beattie | 395 |
| AU Australia | #559 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Beattie | 208 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Beattie | 180 |
| NZ New Zealand | #483 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Beattie | 91 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Beattie | 55 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Beattie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Form of Bate, a diminutive of Bartholomew; established in the Borders from at least the early 14th century.
as a nameScottish Surnames
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)
- James Beattieb. 1735GBScottish poet, moralist and philosopher (1735-1803)
- David Beattieb. 1924NZGovernor-General of New Zealand
- Ann Beattieb. 1947USShort story writer, novelist, professor
- Kevin Beattieb. 1953GBEnglish footballer (1953-2018)
- Jim Beattieb. 1954USAmerican baseball player
- Ian Beattieb. 1965GBBritish actor
- Stuart Beattieb. 1972AUAustralian screenwriter and film director
- Joseph Beattieb. 1978GBBritish actor
- James Beattieb. 1978GBEnglish footballer and manager (born 1978)
- Amber Beattieb. 1993GBBritish actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9K | #3,955 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.9K | #3,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #3,982 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Beattie mean, and where does it come from?
- From the personal name Beattie, a Scottish pet-form of Bartholomew; or from Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Beattie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbiti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Beattie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Beattie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled beattie.
- How common is the name Beattie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,993 people named Beattie in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Beattie compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Beattie is the 483rd most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beattieThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Beattie” — the 483rd most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.