Beauty
Feminine · “beauty”
Beauty was inside the American top fourteen hundred and forty in 1902, which is a good deal more use than most people would expect for a name that is simply the abstract noun. It belongs with Charity, Mercy, Prudence and Temperance to the English habit of naming a child for a quality, and its word has a long French and Latin history.
How old is the name Beauty?
Beauty first appears in US birth records in 1902 — 123 years ago. The typical Beauty alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 500 people named Beauty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Beauty most popular?
Beauty peaked in 1902, reaching #1438 nationally. Today it ranks #6116, 4,678 places below that high. See the whole 1902 chart.
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Where it comes from
From bellus to Beauty
The story of Beauty
Abstract-quality names entered English with the Reformation and never entirely left. The famous set is moral — Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Patience, Mercy — but a second and less discussed group names qualities that are not virtues at all: Beauty, Fortune, Comfort, Increase. American records carry all of these, concentrated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beauty is unusual among them for still being in use, in small numbers, and for being the only one where the quality named is entirely outside the bearer's control. It has revived slightly in recent decades alongside Precious and Diamond.
Meaning
beauty; the quality of being beautiful
Latin bellus, 'pretty, handsome, fine', gave Old French bel and beau and the noun beaute, which English borrowed in the fourteenth century. Bellus is itself thought to be a diminutive of bonus, 'good' — so beauty and good are, at some distance, the same word. The abstract noun replaced the native English wlite, which did not survive. The derivation is settled at every step.
How the name formed
- bellus
- beaute
- beauty
- Beauty
Related forms: Beaute · Belleza
Pronouncing Beauty
BYOO-tee
Two syllables, stress on the first, exactly as the ordinary noun. Nobody has to be taught it and there is no competing saying.
Nicknames for Beauty
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
- 1902
- Most girls named
- 201828 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1438reached in 1902
- Change vs 2024
- +46.2%19 in 2025, from 13
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.
Beauty in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Beaute in French — related form
- Belleza in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida.
Beautys among us
people named Beauty are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 84,593 born in 2025 was named Beauty
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Beauty
- #6116
- Beauty on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Beauty went to 19 girls in 2025, but Beautii is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,181 places above the chart.
- Beauty19
- Beautii6
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 84,593 for Beauty itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Beauty 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
Beauty beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Beauty in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It never needs to be spelled, because every English speaker already writes it.
- Bea and Beau are both usable short forms with real independent histories.
- The Latin route from bellus to beauty is a genuinely good story.
- It names a quality the bearer did not choose and cannot control, which some adults find heavy.
- As an everyday noun it appears constantly in sentences unrelated to the bearer.
- Its American curve is turn-of-the-century, which places a bearer's generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Beautys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Beauty are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Beauty?
- Beauty is the most-used spelling in US records — 19 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Beautii.
- How popular is the name Beauty in 2025?
- Beauty ranks #6116 among US girl names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Beauty?
- About 1 in every 84,593 US girls born in 2025 was named Beauty — 19 in all.
- Will my child share the name Beauty with classmates?
- Beauty will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Beauty
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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