Beatrice
Top 1000
About Beatrice
Beatrice is back. Stored in the attic for almost a century, the lovely Beatrice with its long literary (Shakespeare, Dante) and royal history is being looked at with fresh eyes by parents seeking a classic name with character and lots of upbeat nicknames, like Bea and Bee.
Beatrice has some competition with more flavorful Beatrix and Beatriz these days. Beatrice is far more popular in the UK., ranking in the Top 100, while in the US Beatrice sits in a sweet spot in the middle of the Top 1000.
Beatrice is derived from Beatrix, a Latin name meaning "she who brings happiness." In the earliest sources it is also recorded as Viatrix, meaning "voyager", so there is some weight in both meanings.
Beatrice was the name of Queen Victoria's youngest child. And in Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, Beatrice is his guide through Paradise and is idealized as the embodiment of the spirit of love. In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice is the witty, high-spirited heroine. Other variants of the name include the French Béatrice and the Spanish and Portuguese Beatriz.
Nickname Bea actually stood alone on the popularity lists for four years at the beginning of the twentieth century — and it could happen again. Bea is sleek and modern, while Trixie sounds vintage and sassy — though if you favor Trixie, you may want to consider the Beatrix version of the name, which is reminiscent of watercolorist and children's author Beatrix Potter and has that surprising -x ending. Beatrice, on the other hand, feels gentler and more classic.
The Duke and Duchess of York, aka Fergie and Prince Andrew, thrust Beatrice back into the public eye when they chose it for their older daughter in 1988. The name can be pronounced with two syllables, BEE- or BEH-tris; with three, as in BEE- or BAY-ah-tris; or, as the Italians say it, with a magisterial four, bay-ah-TREE-chay.
Other names that mean happiness: Felicity and Hilary, either of which would make a good twin or sister name for Beatrice. Beatrice is also among the relatively rare girl names starting with B that has a lot of current style value.
Pronounced BEE-uh-tris.
As of October 2026, Beatrice ranked #508 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #36 in 1910, Nameberry popularity #96.
Editor's take: The name Beatrice is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "she who brings happiness; blessed".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #599 | 491 | 274.9 |
| 2015 | #569 | 542 | 303.6 |
| 2016 | #557 | 560 | 316 |
| 2017 | #559 | 548 | 317.4 |
| 2018 | #570 | 542 | 318.6 |
| 2019 | #556 | 547 | 325.9 |
| 2020 | #552 | 538 | 332.8 |
| 2021 | #564 | 542 | 330.3 |
| 2022 | #554 | 548 | 334.1 |
| 2023 | #588 | 509 | 317.2 |
| 2024 | #579 | 518 | 319.7 |
| 2025 | #508 | 583 | 362.7 |
World rankings
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Beatrice on lists
Famous Beatrices
- Beatrice d'Este
Queen consort of Andrew II of Hungary
- Beatrice of Naples
Queen consort of Vladislaus II of Hungary and Bohemia
- Beatrice of Luxembourg
Queen consort of Charles I of Hungary
- Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (born Bernice Frankel)
American actress
- Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth
American actress
- Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet
American actress
- Beatrice Annika "Bea" Miller
American singer and actress
- Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore of the U.K.
Princess Henry of Battenberg; daughter of Queen Victoria
- Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria of Saxe
Coburg and Gotha, Princess of Edinburgh; Infanta of Spain; Duchess of Galliera; granddaughter of Queen Victoria
- Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York
Princess of the U.K., daughter of Prince Andrew
- Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari
Italian woman who inspired Dante's "Divine Comedy"
- (Martha) Beatrice Webb
Baroness Passfield, English sociologist
- Beatrice Alice Hicks
American engineer
- Beatrice Mtetwa
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer
- Beatrice Gladys "Bea" Lillie
Canadian,British actress
- Beatrice Wood
American avant garde artist
- Beatrice Câșlaru
Romanian Olympic swimmer
- Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling
English aeronautical engineer and motorcyclist
- Beatrice "Bea" Kozera (Renteria
Franco), Jack Kerouac's lover and inspiration for the character Terry in "On the Road"
- Beatrice Selfridge
daughter of American,British entrepreneur Harry Selfridge
- Beatrice Tulchin
American actress
- Beatrice Martin aka Coeur de Pirate
French,Canadian singer,songwriter
- Béatrice Marie Caroline Louise Françoise
Princess of Bourbon,Two Sicilies; daughter of Prince Ferdinand
- Beatrice Charlotte
Princess of of Saxe,Coburg and Gotha, daughter of Prince Friedrich Josias
- Beatrice Louise "Beattie" Edmondson
English actress; daughter of actress Jennifer Saunders
- Beatrice Milly McCartney (b. 2003)
daughter of musician Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
- Beatrice Sommer (b. 2008)
daughter of actor Rich Sommer
- Beatrice Jean Howard
Gabel (b. 2012), daughter of actress Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gabel
- Beatrice Tornatore
Italian rhythmic gymnast
- Beatrice Danger Brocklebank (b. 2019)
daughter of American actress Jess Weixler
- Beatrice “Bebe” Vio
Italian fencer and Paralympics champion
Beatrice in pop culture
- Beatrice "Tris" Prior
in the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth
- Beatrice
in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
- Beatrice Duke
character in webseries Nothing Much to Do
- Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby
in Ramona novels by Beverly Cleary
- Beatrice Carbone
in Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge"
- Beatrice Rappaccini
character in "Rappaccini's Daughter"
- Beatrice Baudelaire Sr. and Beatrice Baudelaire Jr.
characters in "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
- Beatrice "Bea" Plumb
character in novel "The Nest"
- Beatrice Rumfoord
in Kurt Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan"
- Beatrice Severn
in Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana"
- Beatrice "The Bear" Leep
character in Carl Hiaasen's "Hoot"
- Beatrice
character in manga/anime "Gunslinger Girl"
- Beatrice the Golden Witch
in "Umineko: When They Cry"
- Beatrice Middleton
in "Ishmael" and "Self Raised" by E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Beatrice Crumplebottom
character in "Sims" series
- Beatrice Grimaldi
character in the Gossip Girl series
- Beatrice Hotchkiss
in the Nancy Drew game series
- Beatrice
demon in video game "Wild Arms 3"
- Beatrice
in Kingsley's "REALLY B, REALLY" videos
- Beatrice Russo
in "Il Postino: The Postman"
- Beatrice Stanhope
in movie "George of the Jungle"
- Beatrice "Bea" Grunwald
character on TV's "Ravenswood"
- Juniper Beatrice "Junie B." Jones
of Junie B. Jones books
- Beatrice
in animated series "Over the Garden Wall"
- Beatrice Bloor
in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Beatrice "Trixie" Espinoza
in "Lucifer"
- Beatrice "Beatie" May Bow
character in book and movie "Playing Beatie Bow"
- Beatrice Horseman
mother of the titular character "BoJack Horseman"
- Beatrice Rhinehart
character in the webcomic "Riverside Extras" by Miri Chamberlain
- Beatrice
main character in Kill Bill played by Uma Thurman
- Beatrice "Bea" Santello
character in video game "Night in the Woods"
- Beatrice Haywood
character in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Beatrice Lacy
character in “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier