Beatrice is an Italian and French name, based on the Latin Beatrix. which means ‘the blessed one’ or ‘bringer of joy’. The Spanish form is Beatriz.
Beatrice is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Beatrice isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Beatrice ranks 539. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Beatrice. In the entire USA, approximately 163,297 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Beatrice. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Beatrice is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Beatrice for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Beatrice is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Beatrice is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 36 Beatrice easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1910.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Beatrice was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 545 babies were named Beatrice in the USA in 2022, ranking it #505 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2005, when it was only ranked at #1,051 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 213 girls were named Beatrice.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Beatrice occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Beatrice is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Beatrice is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 163,272 women and girls of all generations bear the name Beatrice – that is one in 944. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Vermont, where one in 386 women and girls is called Beatrice, while it is particularly rare in Nevada, where you have to ask an average of 44,668 women for their name to get Beatrice as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Beatrice is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Beatrice and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Beatrice, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Apple
Tiger
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Beatrice
Beatrice
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Beatrice sounds like this:
