Beau
Top 1000
About Beau
Beau suggests someone devilishly handsome, with a large measure of southern charm—a nice image to bestow on your boy. Often solely a nickname in the past, it's now standing firmly on its own. Beau has been on the Social Security list non-stop since 1969.
Beau also has something of a dapper image, thanks to the fashionable Beau Brummell (born George), which led to the stylish New York mayor Jimmy Walker being called Beau James. Other notable Beaus had more formal names at birth—Beaus Bridges and Biden were both the third sons in their families to carry their fathers' names: Lloyd Vernet Bridges III and Joseph Robinette Biden III.
P.C. Wren's novel Beau Geste was a major bestseller in its day and was also a popular movie—in that case Michael was the character's birth name. Many will remember that the child of Ashley and Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind was called Beau, and there was also a Beau on the old TV western Maverick.
And if you want a more substantial name on the birth certificate, try Beauregard.
Art Garfunkel, Emma Bunton, Wendy Wilson, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and now Tori Spelling all have sons named Beau.
Pronounced BOH.
As of October 2026, Beau ranked #60 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #112.
Editor's take: The name Beau is a boy's name of French origin meaning "handsome".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #230 | 1,634 | 850.7 |
| 2015 | #203 | 1,980 | 1,033 |
| 2016 | #190 | 2,124 | 1,119.2 |
| 2017 | #157 | 2,511 | 1,356.6 |
| 2018 | #151 | 2,597 | 1,429.9 |
| 2019 | #132 | 2,932 | 1,634.1 |
| 2020 | #109 | 3,344 | 1,937.3 |
| 2021 | #94 | 3,815 | 2,180.6 |
| 2022 | #90 | 3,955 | 2,265.2 |
| 2023 | #80 | 4,098 | 2,395.7 |
| 2024 | #69 | 4,694 | 2,724.5 |
| 2025 | #60 | 5,165 | 3,023.9 |
World rankings
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Beau on lists
Famous Beaus
- George Bryan "Beau" Brummell
English dandy
- Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges
American actor
- Beau Billingslea
American actor
- (Eldon) Beau Boulter
U.S. Congressman from Texas
- Beau Burchell
American guitarist for Saosin
- Beau Mark Bokan
American singer of Blessthefall
- Beau MacMillan
American celebrity chef
- (William) Beau Mirchoff
American actor
- Beau Michael Brinkley
American NFL football player
- Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden
American politician; son of Vice President Joe Biden
- Beau James (born James John "Jimmy" Walker)
American politician
- Richard "Beau" Nash
British dandy
- Beau Brooks
Australian comedian of YouTube group The Janoskians
- Beau Brady
Australian actor
- Beau Kazer
Canadian actor
- Beau Hoopman
American Olympic rower
- Beau Daniel Bennett
American hockey player
- Beau Ryan
Australian rugby league player
- Beau
Jarred Matthew Schekeryk (b. 1980), son of singer Melanie Safka
- Beau LeDoux (b. 1988)
son of singer Chris LeDoux
- Beau "Grayson" Reed (b. 1991)
son of singer Tanya Tucker and Ben Reed
- Beau Devin Cassidy (b. 1991)
son of actor/singer David Cassidy
- Beau Alexander Knutson (b. 1994)
son of singer Wendy Wilson and Daniel Knutson
- Beau Daniel Garfunkel (b. 2005)
son of singer Art Garfunkel
- Beau Lee Jones (b. 2007)
son of singer Emma Bunton of the Spice Girls
- Beau Henry Redknapp (b. 2008)
son of singer Louise Redknapp and footballer Jamie Redknapp
- Beau Kyle Dykstra (b. 2013)
son of actress Jamie,Lynn Sigler and Cutter Dykstra
- Beau Lee Stephen Crofts (b. 2014)
son of actress Tina O'Brien and Adam Crofts
- Beau Dean McDermott (b.2017)
son of actors Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
- Beau Rush Bricken (b. 2017)
son of American actress Virginia Williams
- Beau Bobby Bruce Schulman (b. 2019)
son of Nev Schulman and Laura Perlongo.
Beau in pop culture
- Beauregard "Bo" Brady
character on American soap opera "Days of our Lives"
- Beau Maverick
character on TV's "Maverick"
- Beau Hutton
character in film "Country Strong"
- Beau Hackman
character on TV's "Lie To Me"
- Beau Berkhalter
character on TV's "The Client List"
- Beau
Teddy's ex,boyfriend on TV's "Good Luck Charlie"
- Beau Borroughs
character in movie "Rumor Has It"
- Beau Andrews
character in "The Sims 3" computer game
- Beau Wilkes
character in "Gone with the Wind"
- Beauregard "Beau" Langdon
character in American Horror Story: Murder House
- Beau Beasley
houseguest on "Big Brother 6"
- Beau
a deer villager from “Animal Crossing”
- Variations: Bo
Bowe
- Beaufort "Beau" Swan
character in "Life and Death: Twilight Revisited," the gender-swapped version of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"