Bea

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bea: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bea: Recorded every year since 2000, its highest recorded position is #372, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#372highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3912
2001	#3998
2002	#2105
2003	#2436
2004	#1535
2005	#1406
2006	#1748
2007	#1741
2008	#1641
2009	#1668
2010	#1520
2011	#1729
2012	#1720
2013	#959
2014	#1411
2015	#1405
2016	#1241
2017	#1144
2018	#1035
2019	#703
2020	#840
2021	#747
2022	#963
2023	#813
2024	#1097

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2000 to 2024.

In 2024: #372 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1097 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2000–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2000
First recorded at #3912 among girls in England and Wales in 2000 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2008–2025
Highest recorded position: #372 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2008–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bea appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 2000, and has registered 595 births with the name.

Bea across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bea's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3912 (2000)	#703 (2019)	#1097 (2024)	25 of 25	595 (2000–2024)	55 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#862 (2008)	#372 (2024)	#608 (2025)	11 of 18	57 (2008–2025)	10 (2024)

Bea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bea in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	110	10 of 10	11
2010s	281	10 of 10	28
2020sbusiest	204	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 41 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Bea appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2000 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #372 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Bea's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1097	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#813	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#963	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#747	50	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#840	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#703	55	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1035	34	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1241	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1405	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1411	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#959	38	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1668	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	10	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#476	8	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2000 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #372, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 55 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bayley · #381, 29y
Baylie · #2097, 21y
Bear · #326, 18y
Beata · #141, 49y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Beryl · #372, 26y
Maddy · #372, 29y
Clarice · #374, 29y
Dragan · #370, 26y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aimee-Lee · #372, 11y
Catelyn · #372, 19y
Roksana · #370, 18y
Eimantas · #375, 12y

Bea was ranked #372 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bea and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bea without appearing here.

Bea moved ahead of

Tove Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1641 and #5545.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1720 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #959 and #4739.
Cameron Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1720 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #959 and #4050.
Lene Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1535 and #3725.

Moved ahead of Bea

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #703 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #840 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1411 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1405 and #1240.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #813 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1097 and #952.

Moved the opposite way to Bea

Abigail Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 while Aisling went from #443 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 while Alex went from #186 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Bea

Ada Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 and Ada from #1831 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 and Alma from #2416 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 and Amalie from #3912 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Bea went from #3912 to #1097 and Amelia from #35 to #2.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2000 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #372 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bea

Bea at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bea across 2 official records

Bea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bea appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Bea at a glance

Bea across 2 official records

Bea by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Bea appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Bea

Bea and the names beside it

Bea moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bea

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