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How popular is the name Beau?
Births per year, rank history and how many Beaus are alive today.
Beau (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 108th in 2025 with 487 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 507 babies were given the name, the 113th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 7,200 babies have been named Beau in England and Wales since 1996. Beau is one spelling of a name also recorded as Bo and Boe; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Beau you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Beaus born in England and Wales are between 5 and 16, and there are at least 7,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 2.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Beau.
How many babies are named Beau each year?
Includes all spellings: Beau, Bo, Boe. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Beau spelling rank?
Where does the Bo spelling rank?
Where does the Boe spelling rank?
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 Beau most popular?
Beau peaked in 2021, when 547 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Beau?
At least 7,900 people named Beau in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Beau?
Most living Beaus are between 5 and 16; the most common age is about 4.
Is Beau becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.