Beaux
Masculine · “handsome”
Beaux is given to both — 2,541 boys and 255 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Beaux is the French word for handsome dressed in its plural spelling, and that silent x lands it squarely in the company of the Louisiana surnames — Boudreaux, Thibodeaux, Robicheaux — where French endings survived generations of English speech. In the mouth it is a single open vowel, the shortest a name can reasonably get, and the states where it turns up most are exactly the ones with the deepest French place-names.
How old is the name Beaux?
Beaux first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Beaux is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,500 people named Beaux are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Beaux most popular?
Beaux peaked in 2025, reaching #970 nationally. Today it ranks #970, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From bellus to Beaux
The story of Beaux
Latin bellus, 'pretty', became French beau, and English borrowed the word outright in the eighteenth century to mean a suitor or a well-dressed man — the sense preserved in the Regency dandy George Bryan 'Beau' Brummell, whose nickname is why English speakers still hear the word at all. From nickname it moved to given name, most readily in the American South. The -x spelling belongs to a separate tradition: French Louisiana, where -eaux and -aux endings held on in family names long after the French was gone. Beaux is what happens when the short English name is written in the Louisiana manner, and the record bears that out in the states where it appears most.
Meaning
handsome, beautiful
The root is French beau, from Latin bellus, 'pretty, handsome'. The -x is the ordinary French plural ending, so as French the written word means 'handsome ones'; as a name it functions simply as an alternate spelling of Beau.
How the name formed
- bellus
- beau
- Beau
- Beaux
Related forms: beau · Beau · Beau · Beauregard
Pronouncing Beaux
BOH
One syllable, rhyming with 'go'. The x is silent, following French; nobody says a final consonant here.
Nicknames for Beaux
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
- 1977
- Most boys named
- 2025236 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #970reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +5.4%236 in 2025, from 224
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.
Beaux in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- beau in French — same name
- Beau in English — spelling variant
- Beau in Dutch — same name
- Beauregard in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, California.
Beauxs among us
people named Beaux are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 7,238 born in 2025 was named Beaux
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 Tyrus test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Beaux's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tyrus climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tyrus's path sketches the road Beaux is walking now.
Beaux is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Beaux is headed
Beaux looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Beaux beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Beaux in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and one vowel sound — nothing to mispronounce once heard, and no competing stress pattern.
- The base spelling Beau is already familiar to American ears, so the name itself is never explained, only the ending.
- The -x ending matches a real and recognizable Louisiana naming tradition rather than being invented from nothing.
- Comes with a ready-made short form, Beau, that stands on its own as a full given name.
- The silent x will need spelling out for life. Most people who hear the name will write Beau, and forms, coaches and coffee cups will default to it.
- In French the -x is a plural ending, so a French speaker reads the written word as 'handsome ones'. Worth knowing rather than worrying about.
- The name's rise is very recent and very sharp, which tends to date a cohort — a Beaux will read as of his own moment, the way certain names instantly signal a decade.
- He is unlikely to meet another. That means no surname initial in class, and also no one else who already knows how to spell it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Beauxs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Beaux are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Beaux in 2025?
- Beaux ranks #970 among US boy names in 2025, with 236 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Beaux?
- About 1 in every 7,238 US boys born in 2025 was named Beaux — 236 in all.
- Will my child share the name Beaux with classmates?
- Beaux will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Beaux
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