girls:
661 births since 1883
#5055 (12th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1881
#3570 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1881
#6066 (22nd percentile)
The name Bee is the #6,066 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,684 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 21.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,570 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,023 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,055 (11.5% percentile) for all time with 661 births since 1883.
Bee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1883 for girls). Birth data for Bee is available in 95 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (75 years for boys and 69 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bee has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (60.7% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Bee were boys.
For boys, Bee reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #724) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 101 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
For girls, Bee reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #555) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 53 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bee ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 9.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bee".
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