girls:
193.8k births since 1880
#202 (96th percentile)
boys:
733 births since 1892
#3854 (16th percentile)
overall:
194.5k births since 1880
#399 (95th percentile)
The name Beatrice is the #399 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 194,539 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #202 (96.5% percentile) for all time with 193,806 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,854 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 733 births since 1892.
Beatrice has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1892 for boys).
The name Beatrice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Beatrice reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 93.5% percentile (ranked #37) with 5,218 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 5,861 births per million (ranked 91.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Beatrice ranks #502 for girls (47.0% percentile) with 291 births per million, which is 5.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Beatrice reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #508) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 74 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beatrice".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Beatrice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.9% confident that Beatrice is pronounced as BEE-uh-trihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEE-uh-truhs, at 19.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B IY1 AH0 T R IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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