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Beatris vs Beatriz

American parents have registered 18,448 Beatrizes since 1880, against 1,188 Beatrises. Beatriz is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beatris against Beatriz, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beatris Beatriz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Beatriz has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1894 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1915, when Beatris had 5 and Beatriz had 25.

Side by side

  Beatris Beatriz
Total US births 1,18818,448
Most in one year 41521
Babies in 2025 under 5120
Estimated living today 1,00016,000
Median age today 3734
Peak year 19901990
Best rank 2,799th girls470th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,703rd
First recorded 19151894
Girls / boys 1,188 / 018,395 / 53

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Beatrises alive today are over 37; half the Beatrizes are over 34. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Beatris Beatriz
France 55945
England and Wales 86740
Ireland 329

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Beatris and Beatriz.