Bee
About Bee
We've seen Beatrice and Beatrix climb in popularity, along with traditional nickname Bea. And now there's Bee, giving it a buzzy nature world spin, plus a tie to popular late night TV''s Samantha Bee, not to mention Aunt Bee on the old The Andy Griffith Show TV show. Bee can theoretically be short for any girl names starting with B.
Pronounced BEE.
As of October 2026, Bee ranked #11095 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #829 in 1883.
Editor's take: The name Bee is a girl's name of English origin meaning "she who brings happiness".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
Similar names
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- Fawn
- Posy
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- Honey
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- Tuesday
- Dove
- Fable
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Bee on lists
Famous Bees
- Behati "Bee" Prinsloo
Namibian supermodel
- Bee Vang
American actor
- Bee Yang
Hmong,American singer and father of writer Kao Kalia Yang
- Katherine "Bee" Shaffer (b. 1987)
daughter of Vogue editor Anna Wintour
- Bianca "Bee"
of HeyImBee Youtube gaming channel
- Bee Williamson
daughter of musician Harry Williamson
- Samantha Bee
Canadian,American comedienne and TV personality
Bee in pop culture
- Beatrice "Aunt Bee" Taylor
character on "The Andy Griffith Show"
- Arabella Beatrice "Bee" Hemming
main character in "Sister" by Rosamund Lupton
- Bee Branch
from "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" a novel by Maria Semple
- Bee
main character in "Bee and Puppycat," animated web series
- Bee
main character in 'Beholding Bee" by Kimberly Fusco
- Bee
character in "The Babysitter"
- Mary Bee Cuddy
main character in film "The Homesman"
- Burt's Bees
American natural personal care company
- Bumblebee "Bee"
a male Autobot in the Transformers franchise