as a Last Name
- 1,014
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Beatrice
Meaning & Origins
Italian and French (Béatrice): from a medieval female personal name borne in honor of a 4th-century saint, martyred together with her brothers Simplicius and Faustinus. Her name was originally Viātrix meaning ‘traveler’ (a feminine form of viātor, from via ‘way’), a name adopted by early Christians in reference to the journey through life, and Christ's description of himself as ‘the way, the life, and the truth’; it was later altered as a result of folk etymological association with Latin beatus ‘blessed’.
| 23,023rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,014
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Beatrice per capita
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