Meaning not yet researched.
Bea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #834 in 1908.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #834 in 1908; #2,218 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,218 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1908, at #834.
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Bea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #834 in 1908 · most girls in one year: 89 (2024).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Bea, making it the 2,218th most common girls’ name of the year, down 81 places from #2,137 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 89 girls named Bea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #834, reached in 1908. The most girls given the name in a single year was 89, in 2024. For comparison, it was #5,316 in 2015 and #2,548 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bea in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 2,342 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 410 babies named Bea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 593 US girls were named Bea; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bea ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,549 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Beatrice (195,653 babies since 1880), Beatrix (4,110 babies since 1880) and Beau (66,603 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Beata are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Beatrice.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Beata (956).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Bea is listed as a nickname for Beatrice, Blanche.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,549 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,128 | #2,769 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,243 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,010 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,316 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,856 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,674 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,927 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,855 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,950 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,736 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,592 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,637 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,902 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,978 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,954 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,468 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,461 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,365 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,249 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,518 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,376 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,198 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,558 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,886 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,348 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,090 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,565 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,085 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,859 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,091 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,944 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1943 | 40 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1923 | 36 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1913 | 25 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1910 | 20 | #974 | — | — |
| 1909 | 19 | #940 | — | — |
| 1908 | 22 | #834 | — | — |
| 1907 | 15 | #992 | — | — |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1905 | 13 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #936 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).