Beatriz
Feminine · “she who brings happiness”
Beatriz is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 18,395 girls against 53 boys since 1880.
Beatriz is the Spanish and Portuguese of Beatrice — she who makes happy — and Dante's Beatrice leads him through paradise after Virgil can go no further.
How old is the name Beatriz?
Beatriz first appears in US birth records in 1894 — 131 years ago. The typical Beatriz alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 16,000 people named Beatriz are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Beatriz most popular?
Beatriz peaked in 1990, reaching #470 nationally. Today it ranks #1703, 1,233 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Viatrix to Beatriz
The story of Beatriz
Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante saw twice and made the center of the Vita Nuova and the Paradiso, is the most consequential bearer; she guides him where Virgil, being unbaptised, cannot go. The name spread across Romance Europe, and Spanish and Portuguese use Beatriz. It appears in American records and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
she who brings happiness
From the Latin beatrix, 'she who makes happy', from beare, 'to bless' or 'to make happy'. An earlier form Viatrix, 'traveler', from via, may be the original, altered toward beatus, 'blessed', by Christian writers. Both are documented and the alteration is well attested.
How the name formed
- Viatrix
- Beatrix
- Beatriz
Related forms: Beatriz · Beatriz · Beatrice · Beatrix
Pronouncing Beatriz
bay-ah-TREES
Three syllables, stress on the third. Italian Beatrice is beh-ah-TREE-cheh with four.
Nicknames for Beatriz
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1894
- Most girls named
- 1991515 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #470reached in 1990
- Change vs 2022
- +22.4%120 in 2025, from 98
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Beatriz in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Beatriz in Spanish — same name
- Beatriz in Portuguese — same name
- Beatrice in Italian — related form
- Beatrix in Dutch — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Beatrizs among us
people named Beatriz are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,394 born in 2025 was named Beatriz
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Janel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Beatriz's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janel climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janel's path sketches the road Beatriz is walking now.
Beatriz sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Beatriz is headed
Beatriz should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Beatriz beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Beatriz in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One of the most consequential figures in European literature carries it.
- The traveler-to-blessed alteration is a genuinely good piece of name history.
- Bea and Bia are two warm and widely used short forms.
- The original may have meant 'traveler' rather than 'she who blesses'.
- Beatrice is the form English speakers will assume.
- The end stress will need explaining.
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Feminine · #1703 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Beatrizs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 16,000 people named Beatriz are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Beatriz in 2025?
- Beatriz ranks #1703 among US girl names in 2025, with 120 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Beatriz?
- About 1 in every 13,394 US girls born in 2025 was named Beatriz — 120 in all.
- Will my child share the name Beatriz with classmates?
- Beatriz will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Beatriz
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