Bea

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Bea är en kortform till → Beatrice

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/biː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 14K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,500 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
330 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BeaLatin(measured from records)
บีอีเอThai(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Swedish

Bea är en kortform till → Beatrice. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 2 december.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bea counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈7,500 est.≈1 in 14K—Bea107
DE Germany—≈4,700 est.≈1 in 17K—Bea107
US United States—2,6521 in 125K2.6KBea330
IT Italy—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 31K15Bea25
FI Finland—1,3641 in 4.1K1.4K—18
NL Netherlands—1,2741 in 14K1.3KBea55
CH Switzerland#944≈1,200 est.≈1 in 7.1K—Bea43
BE Belgium—≈910 est.≈1 in 13K5Bea44

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bea is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, France, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Béa, Beà, Bèa, Beä, Bėa

  • Finnish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Philippines

    Also written Béa

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Béa, Beà, Beá

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Béa

  • Swedish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Beä, Béa, Bèâ, Beą

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Romania, Spain

    Also written Béa

  • Polish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Béa, Bęa, Bêã

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bea is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Akan, V. [red. beabea] to lie Icngthtvise, across, to cross; cans, to lay lengthidse; gbea h6 t5t6te^; ntamadan'no bb. ho, the teni^ lie stretched down; cf. bew, boa, da, gu, sam

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • English: informal short form of BEATRICE or BEATRIX .

    as a word

  • In French, BEA; abbreviation of bureau d'enquêtes et d'analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, synonym of bearnaisesås (“béarnaise sauce”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Bea Benaderet, b. 1906Bea Wain, b. 1917Bea Arthur, b. 1922Bea Fiedler, b. 1957Bea Segura, b. 1975Bea Palya, b. 1976Kuo Bea-ting, b. 1984Bea Alonzo, b. 1987Bea Santos, b. 1990Bea Rose Santiago, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Bea,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 70 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Bea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020900#28,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010895#27,059
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000773#28,947
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#98,099
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#78,467

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Bea?
A machine transcription gives /biː/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Bea?
In the etymology graph, Beatriz, Beatrice and Béatrice are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Bea mean?
Recorded meaning: Bea är en kortform till → Beatrice.
Is Bea a male or female name?
Bea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Bea have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Bea in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bea.
Where is Bea most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bea is densest in Finland — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bea?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,652 people named Bea in 2020, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
How common is Bea compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Bea is the 944th most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bea” — the 944th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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