Beau
The 2025 national count puts Beau at #60, and gathering speed. On the books since 1932, peaking in 2025: 65,592 American children so far.
Beau’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Beau, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Beau since 1932
Beau is at its all-time peak right now: #60 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Beau is most common
The state that gives Beau most often, per boys born there, is Wyoming (1.28% in 2025); South Dakota and Montana are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Beau
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Brooks
#64 in 2025
Blair
#169 in 2025
Zoey
#69 in 2025
Theo
#82 in 2025
Gael
#86 in 2025
Bennett
#40 in 2025
Kai
#93 in 2025
Wyatt
#38 in 2025
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About Beau
Where does Beau rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Beau at #60, and gathering speed. The full curve since 1932 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Beau have a meaning on record?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Beau keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Beau?
Brooks, Blair and Zoey sit nearest to Beau on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Beau’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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