Bee vs Beecher
American parents have registered 1,700 Bees since 1880, against 1,019 Beechers. Bee is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Bee Beecher
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
Of the 122 years in which either name was published, Bee for 71 years and Beecher for 51 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.
Side by side
| Bee | Beecher | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,700 | 1,019 |
| Most in one year | 48 | 36 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 720 | 230 |
| Median age today | 36 | 71 |
| Peak year | 1991 | 1921 |
| Best rank | 1,895th boys | 1,199th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1881 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 677 / 1,023 | 0 / 1,019 |
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 Beechers alive today are over 71; half the Bees are over 36. That is 35 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Bee Wisconsin (9.9×), Minnesota (7.1×), California (6.5×)
- Beecher Tennessee (24.3×), Kentucky (22.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bee and Beecher.