Beatrice

Where Beatrice comes from

Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (“she who makes happy”), or 2) from beata, influenced by viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Beatrice
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #154 among girls — 87 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #36
    2,459 babies named Beatrice — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1914
    Beatrice Straight born
    American actress
  4. 1952
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #225.
  5. 2000
    Beatrice Chebet born
    Kenyan long-distance runner born 2000
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Beatrice Chebet · Kenyan long-distance runner born 2000, born 2000
  • Beatrice Straight · American actress, 1914–2001
  • Beatrice Webb · English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer, 1858–1943
  • Beatrice Tinsley · New Zealand astronomer, 1941–1981
  • Beatrice of Naples · Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia, 1457–1508

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.