Bev
Last seen for girls in 1971 at #5,543 · Last seen for boys in 1917 at #3,981
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1959 · 127 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 998since 1940
Bev over time
Rank among girls' names. Bev has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,293 | 27 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,610 | 50 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,623 | 49 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,203 | 84 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,108 | 98 | — | |
| 1960 | #993 | 117 | — | |
| 1959 | #929 | 127 | — | |
| 1958 | #985 | 111 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,228 | 73 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,968 | 30 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
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| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,993 | 24 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,392 | 16 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,742 | 11 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,251 | 16 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Bev! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1952, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Bev
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1971
- Biggest jump: 243 spots in 1958 (#1,228 → #985)
- Biggest drop: 115 spots in 1961 (#993 → #1,108)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1959 at #929 (127 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1958–1960
- Highest: 1 in 15,933 girls born in 1959 were named Bev (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 184,869 girls born in 1971 (0.00%)
- 48.1% of all girls named Bev (480) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 123 | #1,993 (1947) | #2,960 |
| 1950s | 379 | #929 (1959) | #2,174 |
| 1960s | 480 | #993 (1960) | #2,459 |
| 1970s | 16 | #5,543 (1971) | #5,953 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bev in 1961
Top girls' names in 1961
More about 1961
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2,018,495 girls got a published name in 1961; 1 in 20,597 of them was named Bev, which outranked 85.3% of the 7,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,101Lilia99
- #1,101Nedra99
- #1,101Petra99
- #1,108Bev98
- #1,108Dian98
- #1,108Effie98
- #1,108Frieda98
- #1,116Jacalyn97
- #1,116Justina97
- #1,116Laure97
Tied with 7 names at #1,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.