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How popular is the name Beatrice?
Births per year, rank history and how many Beatrices are alive today.
Beatrice (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 121st in 2025 with 401 babies given the name. The name peaked in 1904, when around 3,400 babies were given the name, the 26th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 304 in 1996 before climbing back to the 121st place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 94,000 babies have been named Beatrice in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Beatrice you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old - or else around 79: the name has two living generations. Half of all Beatrices born in England and Wales are between 19 and 76, and there are at least 37,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly an 11% chance that at least one of them will be called Beatrice.
How many babies are named Beatrice each year?
Where does Beatrice rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Beatrice most popular?
Beatrice peaked in 1904, when around 3,400 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Beatrice?
At least 37,000 people named Beatrice born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Beatrice?
Most living Beatrices are between 19 and 76; the most common age is about 9. There is a second cluster around 79.
Is Beatrice becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.