Beatrice Forename
Approximately 1,687,443 people bear this name
Beatrice Forename Definition:
A female name. (French Béatrix, Italian Beatrice, Bice, Spanish Beatriz); Latin ‘bringer of joy’, the name of a 4th-C Roman saint. It occurs as the name of a sub-tenant in Domesday Book, and was fairly common from the 12th to 13th C. The two forms of the name are relics of the old French cas-sujet Béatrix, and cas- régime Béatriz; both occur in England, but the second was the commoner; in 1487 it appears as Beautrice, a little later as Betteresse and in 1604 as Bettris.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 99% | 283,951 | 1:260 | 23 |
| Uganda | 100% | 212,805 | 1:192 | 38 |
| Kenya | 100% | 135,902 | 1:341 | 53 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 131,252 | 1:402 | 56 |
| United States | 100% | 118,309 | 1:3,064 | 526 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 114,797 | 1:1,547 | 280 |
| Zambia | - | 84,431 | 1:188 | 19 |
| Ghana | 100% | 78,210 | 1:345 | 64 |
| Malawi | 100% | 60,157 | 1:284 | 49 |
| France | 100% | 47,541 | 1:1,398 | 227 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 37,499 | 1:576 | 103 |
| Burundi | 86% | 34,758 | 1:285 | 44 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 32,148 | 1:255 | 54 |
| Italy | 100% | 30,536 | 1:2,000 | 285 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 25,380 | 1:448 | 87 |
| Benin | 100% | 24,645 | 1:429 | 39 |
| South Africa | 100% | 21,915 | 1:2,488 | 429 |
| Liberia | 99% | 21,733 | 1:203 | 30 |
| England | 100% | 19,506 | 1:2,851 | 404 |
| Haiti | 100% | 17,298 | 1:620 | 86 |
| Sudan | 100% | 14,675 | 1:2,576 | 463 |
| Romania | 100% | 13,582 | 1:1,476 | 196 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 13,339 | 1:1,156 | 204 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 12,569 | 1:564 | 140 |
| Germany | 100% | 11,981 | 1:8,069 | 639 |
| Belgium | 100% | 8,765 | 1:1,311 | 312 |
| Chad | 100% | 7,291 | 1:1,865 | 248 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 7,255 | 1:3,257 | 735 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 7,132 | 1:3,236 | 353 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 6,803 | 1:2,702 | 389 |
| Canada | 100% | 6,737 | 1:4,918 | 765 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,800 | 1:601 | 138 |
| Sweden | 100% | 3,007 | 1:3,278 | 423 |
| Guinea | 100% | 2,883 | 1:4,113 | 430 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 2,284 | 1:13,332 | 1,440 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,111 | 1:101,486 | 5,609 |
| Togo | - | 1,483 | 1:4,881 | 807 |
| Philippines | 100% | 1,423 | 1:74,497 | 4,662 |
| Austria | 100% | 1,319 | 1:6,455 | 516 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,275 | 1:2,427 | 404 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,230 | 1:4,350 | 445 |
| Senegal | 99% | 1,212 | 1:12,031 | 860 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1,172 | 1:3,962 | 441 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1,163 | 1:1,619 | 389 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 925 | 1:105,470 | 7,385 |
| Samoa | - | 913 | 1:214 | 37 |
| Namibia | - | 838 | 1:2,869 | 510 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 827 | 1:9,858 | 990 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 699 | 1:387 | 85 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 692 | 1:24,425 | 2,171 |
| Spain | 100% | 676 | 1:68,831 | 2,392 |
| Morocco | 100% | 655 | 1:52,441 | 2,146 |
| Thailand | 100% | 607 | 1:115,430 | 9,249 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 561 | 1:3,285 | 449 |
| Lebanon | 98% | 536 | 1:10,499 | 1,070 |
| Australia | - | 528 | 1:25,867 | 1,639 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 525 | 1:58,691 | 6,867 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 519 | 1:20,099 | 1,879 |
| Poland | 100% | 471 | 1:80,737 | 1,882 |
| India | 100% | 468 | 1:2,595,893 | 124,154 |
| Bahamas | - | 446 | 1:895 | 234 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 429 | 1:601,314 | 43,059 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 429 | 1:48,483 | 5,248 |
| French Polynesia | - | 400 | 1:695 | 145 |
| Bangladesh | - | 367 | 1:434,500 | 16,631 |
| Congo | 99% | 344 | 1:14,562 | 1,679 |
| Finland | 100% | 332 | 1:16,516 | 1,022 |
| Mali | 100% | 331 | 1:51,292 | 2,831 |
| Guyana | 100% | 255 | 1:2,993 | 586 |
| Egypt | 100% | 239 | 1:384,523 | 11,247 |
| Swaziland | - | 205 | 1:6,342 | 1,007 |
| Czechia | 100% | 204 | 1:52,236 | 855 |
| Norway | 100% | 197 | 1:26,052 | 1,413 |
| Belize | 100% | 189 | 1:1,875 | 423 |
| Hong Kong | - | 179 | 1:43,311 | 2,463 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 170 | 1:8,008 | 1,252 |
| China | - | 168 | 1:8,131,284 | 59,470 |
| Singapore | 100% | 166 | 1:37,874 | 6,524 |
| Botswana | 100% | 158 | 1:13,826 | 1,833 |
| Denmark | - | 150 | 1:37,663 | 1,623 |
| New Zealand | - | 150 | 1:30,240 | 1,995 |
| Guam | - | 147 | 1:1,093 | 241 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 131 | 1:759 | 117 |
| Portugal | - | 129 | 1:80,704 | 2,343 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 121 | 1:10,725 | 1,347 |
| Greece | 100% | 120 | 1:91,121 | 2,559 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Hungary | 100% | 93 | 1:105,288 | 746 |
| Barbados | - | 92 | 1:3,150 | 592 |
| Mexico | 100% | 91 | 1:1,364,224 | 9,601 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 84 | 1:1,855 | 452 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 84 | 1:1,307 | 267 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 81 | 1:372,863 | 10,977 |
| Iraq | 100% | 77 | 1:454,777 | 5,303 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 76 | 1:457 | 63 |
| Chile | 100% | 68 | 1:258,930 | 4,213 |
| Micronesia | - | 67 | 1:1,590 | 251 |
| Jersey | - | 65 | 1:1,538 | 313 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Qatar | 100% | 59 | 1:40,163 | 5,201 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 57 | 1:664 | 148 |
| Japan | - | 54 | 1:2,370,112 | 20,985 |
| Lithuania | - | 53 | 1:55,696 | 1,179 |
| Grenada | 100% | 51 | 1:2,120 | 447 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 51 | 1:3,487 | 615 |
| Malta | - | 45 | 1:9,541 | 977 |
| Seychelles | - | 45 | 1:2,059 | 474 |
| San Marino | 100% | 43 | 1:766 | 178 |
| Ecuador | - | 42 | 1:422,070 | 4,935 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 41 | 1:2,721 | 531 |
| Israel | 100% | 38 | 1:221,129 | 6,491 |
| Kuwait | - | 38 | 1:99,612 | 6,886 |
| Andorra | - | 37 | 1:2,240 | 270 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 37 | 1:15,702 | 1,358 |
| Gambia | - | 36 | 1:53,517 | 339 |
| Mozambique | - | 36 | 1:756,760 | 1,518 |
| Panama | 100% | 35 | 1:111,616 | 5,306 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 35 | 1:101,437 | 1,901 |
| Niger | 82% | 31 | 1:618,839 | 11,603 |
| Bermuda | - | 30 | 1:2,161 | 469 |
| Moldova | - | 27 | 1:131,894 | 1,438 |
| Argentina | 88% | 26 | 1:1,645,125 | 6,777 |
| Angola | - | 25 | 1:1,078,664 | 2,481 |
| Aruba | - | 25 | 1:4,151 | 831 |
| Estonia | 100% | 23 | 1:57,190 | 3,101 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 22 | 1:92,727 | 8,141 |
| Russia | 100% | 22 | 1:6,556,077 | 28,980 |
| Luxembourg | - | 21 | 1:26,859 | 1,421 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 21 | 1:117,084 | 3,073 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 20 | 1:3,065 | 627 |
| Croatia | 100% | 20 | 1:210,854 | 3,596 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 20 | 1:2,743 | 590 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 19 | 1:250,945 | 5,192 |
| Iran | - | 19 | 1:4,131,414 | 17,591 |
| Turkey | 100% | 18 | 1:4,322,317 | 20,987 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 15 | 1:476,800 | 16,943 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 15 | 1:228,509 | 3,962 |
| Albania | 100% | 14 | 1:217,612 | 11,047 |
| Peru | 100% | 14 | 1:2,270,818 | 22,263 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 14 | 1:379,290 | 1,926 |
| South Korea | - | 14 | 1:396,030 | 11,136 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 13 | 1:1,020 | 161 |
| Monaco | - | 13 | 1:2,959 | 566 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 13 | 1:1,828,437 | 49,694 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 12 | 1:1,342,369 | 5,026 |
| Jordan | 100% | 12 | 1:735,564 | 4,592 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 12 | 1:4,556 | 750 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 12 | 1:486 | 130 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 11 | 1:2,841 | 595 |
| Colombia | - | 10 | 1:4,777,893 | 27,360 |
| Vietnam | - | 10 | 1:9,262,311 | 4,040 |
| Oman | - | 7 | 1:586,952 | 5,255 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 7 | 1:27,765,383 | 122,080 |
| Dominica | - | 6 | 1:12,578 | 436 |
| El Salvador | - | 5 | 1:1,268,357 | 7,255 |
| Montserrat | - | 5 | 1:975 | 152 |
| Algeria | - | 4 | 1:9,544,180 | 14,095 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Macau | - | 4 | 1:152,052 | 991 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Honduras | - | 3 | 1:2,939,156 | 20,066 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 2 | 1:3,009,168 | 24,322 |
| Palestine | 100% | 2 | 1:2,275,029 | 4,783 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 2 | 1:3,618,402 | 11,946 |
| Serbia | 100% | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Isle of Man | - | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Béatrice (36,767), Bèatrice (409), Beatriçe (91), Beatricé (14), Beatriče (13), Bėatrice (1), Beàtrice (1), Beâtrice (1), Beatríce (1), Bêatrice (1) & Béatricé (1) are calculated separately.
Beatrice (58,907) may also be a surname.
Beatrice Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. (French Béatrix, Italian Beatrice, Bice, Spanish Beatriz); Latin ‘bringer of joy’, the name of a 4th-C Roman saint. It occurs as the name of a sub-tenant in Domesday Book, and was fairly common from the 12th to 13th C. The two forms of the name are relics of the old French cas-sujet Béatrix, and cas- régime Béatriz; both occur in England, but the second was the commoner; in 1487 it appears as Beautrice, a little later as Betteresse and in 1604 as Bettris. Bettrys is still the Welsh form. The diminutives Beatty, Beton were common in the Middle Ages and gave rise to various surnames. Beaten occurs in Cornwall as late as the 17th C. The name went quite out of fashion in the 17th and 18th C, and its revival in the later part of the 19th C was probably due to its many literary associations—Dante’s Beatrice Portinari, Shakespeare’s Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, and Thackeray’s Beatrix Esmond. The name is not now generally abbreviated; when it is, it is usually to Bee or Trix, Trixie; occasionally, in the Italian mode, to Bice. It is interesting to note that the vulgar modern pronunciation of the name as a disyllable, and abbreviation of it to Beat, closely correspond to the medieval vernacular pronunciation.
Beatrix Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1076-84, Curia Regis Rolls 1187-1215, Feudal Aids 1346. Beatricia Hundred Rolls 1273. Beautrice Records of St. Mary at Hill, 1420-1559 (E.E.T.S. 125-8) 1487. Betrys, Bette Coventry Mysteries 15th C. Bete or Betune Promptorium Parvulorum c. 1440. Beton Yorks Pell Tax 1379. Beaten Cornish Church Registers 1637. Bettrice Pills to Purge Melancholy 1684.
BEATRIX. The latter is the original, as it is also the correct form of the word; although Beatrice is now the usual form in England and even in Italy, only Beatrix is heard in the other European countries. In Latin, it is ‘blessed’, or, more poetically and more practically, ‘joy-giver’. The three most famous Beatrices in literature are perhaps Dante’s (Beatrice, loda di Dio vera), Shakespeare’s, and Thackeray’s in Henry Esmond.
BEATRIX. Female names formed from the Latin beatus, blessed, happy.
Latin (masculine) - Making blessed.
A Latin name, meaning: One who blesses: happiness.
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