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Beatriz vs Beautiful

American parents have registered 18,448 Beatrizes since 1880, against 1,127 Beautifuls. Beatriz is still ahead, with 120 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Beatriz Beautiful

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 2015, when Beatriz had 106 and Beautiful had 50.

Side by side

  Beatriz Beautiful
Total US births 18,4481,127
Most in one year 52167
Babies in 2025 12038
Estimated living today 16,0001,100
Median age today 3412
Peak year 19902008
Best rank 470th girls2,718th girls
Rank in 2025 1,703rd3,832nd
First recorded 18941997
Girls / boys 18,395 / 531,127 / 0

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 Beatrizes alive today are over 34; half the Beautifuls are over 12. That is 22 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.

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