Highest ever

Beaux

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#970
236 boys
2015
#1,615
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Beaux: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 236 in 2025. Its best rank was #970 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 94% of babies named Beaux in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#970 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
251
Since 1880
2,796
Years on record
46

Babies named Beaux, every year since 1880

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Boys

Beaux: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 236 boys in 2025. Peak: #970 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 236 (2025).

About the name Beaux

In 2025, 236 US boys were named Beaux, making it the 970th most common boys’ name of the year, up 33 places from #1,003 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 224 boys named Beaux in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #970, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 236. For comparison, it was #1,615 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Beaux in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 9 babies. In all, 2,796 US babies have been given the name, 9.1% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,359 babies named Beaux.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,754 US boys were named Beaux; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 236. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Beaux ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #175 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bex are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Bex (138).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Beaux in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Beaux by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Louisiana29#175#250
Mississippi10#315—
Texas59#545#878
Alabama6#689—
Oklahoma5#708—
Tennessee8#783—
Minnesota5#823—
Michigan8#837—
Arizona6#850—
Colorado5#863—
Florida14#963—
Washington5#1,015—
Virginia5#1,108—
Pennsylvania5#1,254—
California14#1,305#1,899

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202515#7,201236#970
202412#8,533224#1,003
202329#4,669213#1,024
202227#4,926211#1,044
202121#5,787217#1,007
202016#6,973138#1,308
201911#9,218146#1,278
201815#7,454123#1,420
201716#7,148127#1,385
201619#6,453119#1,450
201520#6,27699#1,615
201415#7,72170#2,020
201313#8,65579#1,813
20128#12,39454#2,360
2011——49#2,511
20107#13,68033#3,313
20096#15,53037#3,111
2008——29#3,654
2007——25#4,018
2006——36#3,030
20055#16,86421#4,208
2004——16#5,032
2003——23#3,741
2002——11#6,132
2001——10#6,504
2000——17#4,414
1999——9#6,589
1998——9#6,370
1997——10#5,688
1996——9#6,038
1995——8#6,464
1994——14#4,317
1993——12#4,727
1992——11#4,900
1991——10#5,128
1990——12#4,437
1989——6#7,032
1988——7#5,803
1987——9#4,603
1986——8#4,894
1985——6#5,853
1982——8#4,637
1981——5#6,372
1980——10#3,871
1979——6#5,419
1977——9#3,867

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).