Beau

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Beau: Recorded since 1986, its highest recorded position is #22, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
153times a registrar ranked it
40years from first to last
#22highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for
5names it appears alongside

What stands out in Beau's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2350
1997	#3174
1998	#2407
1999	#1805
2000	#3247
2001	#1107
2002	#809
2003	#545
2004	#528
2005	#473
2006	#469
2007	#597
2008	#467
2009	#414
2010	#315
2011	#275
2012	#169
2013	#178
2014	#192
2015	#249
2016	#227
2017	#274
2018	#344
2019	#325
2020	#370
2021	#395
2022	#412
2023	#397
2024	#432

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 boys in New South Wales, Australia in 30 of the 40 years from 1986 to 2025.

In 2024: #384 among girls in Scotland, #432 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1986–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1986
First recorded at #86 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1986 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded2012–2023
Highest recorded position: #22 among boys in New Zealand, in 2023 (recorded 2012–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #25 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Beau appears in 8 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1986, and has registered 4,178 births with the name.

Beau across 8 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.

Beau'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
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#86 (1986)	#25 (2025)	#25 (2025)	30 of 40	4,178 (1986–2025)	219 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#458 (1996)	#109 (2023)	#110 (2024)	29 of 29	6,722 (1996–2024)	507 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#2350 (1996)	#169 (2012)	#432 (2024)	29 of 29	3,231 (1996–2024)	302 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#506 (2004)	#127 (2023)	#152 (2025)	19 of 22	307 (2004–2025)	45 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#427 (2014)	#608 (2025)	16 of 21	82 (2005–2025)	10 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#329 (2009)	#150 (2021)	#164 (2024)	14 of 16	103 (2009–2024)	16 (2021)
New Zealand · Boys	#82 (2012)	#22 (2023)	#22 (2023)	12 of 12	1,129 (2012–2023)	122 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#440 (2013)	#365 (2014)	#365 (2014)	2 of 2	7 (2013–2014)	4 (2014)

Beau by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Boys

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 Beau in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	430	4 of 10	108
1990s	543	5 of 10	109
2000s	561	5 of 10	112
2010s	1,575	10 of 10	158
2020sbusiest	1,069	6 of 10	178

Across New South Wales, Australia · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 178 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births fell by 57, from 219 to 162.

See the names New South Wales, Australiahas recorded the most births with →

Beau 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 6 regions, from 1986 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #22 in New Zealand in 2023.

Beau'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	#432	99	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#110	477	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#397	105	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#109	475	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#412	103	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#125	444	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#395	113	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#113	507	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#370	119	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#131	419	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#325	144	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#167	321	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#344	139	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#201	268	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#274	178	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#177	315	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#227	228	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#185	301	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#249	198	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#193	298	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#192	277	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#187	302	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#178	295	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#175	318	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#169	302	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#172	341	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#275	179	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#187	296	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#315	150	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#180	300	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#414	102	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#178	295	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#467	86	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#217	212	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#597	60	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#280	143	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#469	82	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#290	123	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#473	78	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#259	131	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#528	61	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#288	106	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#545	56	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#326	85	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#809	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#403	56	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1107	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#452	46	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#697	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#600	30	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#600	28	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2350	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#458	41	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	male	#25	203	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#31	186	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	male	#37	173	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	male	#44	159	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	male	#40	199	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	male	#60	149	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	male	#74	123	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	male	#76	122	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	male	#75	123	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	male	#65	155	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	163	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	male	#58	173	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	New South Wales, Australia	male	#61	162	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	New South Wales, Australia	male	#41	219	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	male	#50	184	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	New South Wales, Australia	male	#68	151	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	New South Wales, Australia	male	#79	135	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	New South Wales, Australia	male	#87	116	Insufficient	Not yet available
2007	New South Wales, Australia	male	#99	103	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	male	#86	115	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	male	#100	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
1994	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
1993	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
1992	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
1991	New South Wales, Australia	male	#73	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
1990	New South Wales, Australia	male	#73	119	Insufficient	Not yet available
1989	New South Wales, Australia	male	#76	112	Insufficient	Not yet available
1988	New South Wales, Australia	male	#76	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
1987	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	125	Insufficient	Not yet available
1986	New South Wales, Australia	male	#86	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#22	119	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#32	108	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#37	105	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#40	96	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#39	110	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	male	#49	100	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	male	#55	88	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	male	#48	100	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	male	#40	122	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	male	#73	62	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	male	#81	60	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	male	#82	59	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#164	13	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#200	10	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#207	10	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#150	16	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#231	8	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#254	7	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#283	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#232	8	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#365	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#271	6	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#387	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#329	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#152	34	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#169	30	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#127	45	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#170	32	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#517	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#168	32	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#240	20	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	17	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#239	22	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#524	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#418	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	7	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#389	9	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#308	14	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#427	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#403	9	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#457	7	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#473	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#160	28	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1986 and 2025, ranked in 39 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #22, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 30 years, 20 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 507 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 38 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.

Beatrix · #152, 30y
Beatriz · #432, 29y
Beauden · #75, 12y
Beaumont · #2443, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 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.

Jackson · #21, 36y
Layla · #24, 35y
Taylor · #19, 35y
Tyler · #19, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Rian · #22, 36y
Layla · #24, 35y
Chelsea · #19, 39y
Kayla · #18, 41y

Comparisons involving Beau

Existing comparison pages where Beau and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Order changes

Pairs where Beau and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Theodore vs Beau
In New Zealand · Boys, Theodore moved into the top 50 at #32 in 2017 as Beau fell out of it to #55, having been #48 the year before.
Theodore · Beau · 11 shared years, 2013–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2017 New Zealand ranking
Harry vs Beau
In New Zealand · Boys, Beau moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2021 as Harry fell out of it to #58, having been #39 the year before.
Harry · Beau · 12 shared years, 2012–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 New Zealand ranking
Jacob vs Beau
In New Zealand · Boys, Beau moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2021 as Jacob fell out of it to #57, having been #36 the year before.
Jacob · Beau · 12 shared years, 2012–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 New Zealand ranking

Compared inside New Zealand lists

Pairs involving Beau measured in New Zealand's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Beau at its highest position.

Noah vs Beau
Both reached their highest recorded position in New Zealand · Boys within 2 years — Noah #1 in 2023, Beau #22 in 2023.
Noah · Beau · 12 shared years, 2012–2023 · Peaked in the same years
See the 2023 New Zealand ranking
Luke vs Beau
In New Zealand · Boys, Beau moved into the top 50 at #37 in 2021 as Luke fell out of it to #65, having been #38 the year before.
Luke · Beau · 12 shared years, 2012–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2021 New Zealand ranking

New Zealand overview→

Beau was ranked #22 in New Zealand · Boys in 2023. 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.

Beau 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 Beau without appearing here.

Beau moved ahead of

Freddie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3247 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #469 and #3548.
Finn Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3247 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1107 and #3998.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3247 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1107 and #3998.
Therese Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3247 and #2416 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1107 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Beau

Aurora Compare
In 2014 they stood at #427 and #536 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #751 and #402.
Violet Compare
In 2014 they stood at #427 and #458 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #751 and #402.
Ivy Compare
In 2011 they stood at #612 and #937 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #677 and #371.
Alma Compare
In 2017 they stood at #524 and #579 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2018 that had become #734 and #512.

Moved the opposite way to Beau

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Beau went from #458 to #110 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Beau went from #2350 to #432 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Beau went from #458 to #110 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Beau went from #2350 to #432 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.

Moved the same way as Beau

Jack Compare
Between 1986 and 2025 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Beau went from #86 to #25 and Jack from #95 to #10.
Liam Compare
Between 1986 and 2025 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Beau went from #86 to #25 and Liam from #79 to #15.
William Compare
Between 1986 and 2025 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Beau went from #86 to #25 and William from #31 to #11.
Harrison Compare
Between 1992 and 2025 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys, Beau went from #98 to #25 and Harrison from #96 to #29.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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 6 regions, from 1986 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #22 in New Zealand in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Beau

Beau at a glance

What stands out in Beau's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Beau across 8 official records

Beau by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Beau appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Comparisons involving Beau

Order changes

Compared inside New Zealand lists

Names published alongside Beau

Beau and the names beside it

Beau moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Beau

Moved the opposite way to Beau

Moved the same way as Beau

Beau at a glance

What stands out in Beau's record

Beau across 8 official records

Beau by decade in New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Beau appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Comparisons involving Beau

Order changes

Compared inside New Zealand lists

Names published alongside Beau

Beau and the names beside it

Beau moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Beau

Moved the opposite way to Beau

Moved the same way as Beau