Girl Names That Start With B

Girls' names beginning with B, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.

Share of girls, 2025: 2.7%; vs 4.2% in 2000
Names in use: 564; 2,391 recorded since 1880
Letter peaked: 1933; at 9.3% of names
Rank among 26 letters: #13; by 2025 share

How B has fared since 1880

Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with B, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.

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Name & meaning	Babies 2025 · rank	5-year rank movement	Peak year
Barbara	264#968	Down 82 rank positions in five years	1947
Betty	212#1,113	Up 62 rank positions in five years	1930
Beverly	246#1,018	Up 249 rank positions in five years	1953
Brittany	281#928	Up 33 rank positions in five years	1989
Bonnie	785#396	Up 210 rank positions in five years	1947
Brianna	1,372#222	Down 77 rank positions in five years	2000
Brooke	972#313	Down 77 rank positions in five years	1996
Beatrice	583#508	Up 44 rank positions in five years	1921
Brooklyn	2,300#118	Down 64 rank positions in five years	2011
Bailey	1,446#209	Down 37 rank positions in five years	1998
Billie	409#691	Up 318 rank positions in five years	1930
Bethany	362#752	Down 150 rank positions in five years	1987
Briana	431#661	Down 47 rank positions in five years	1994
Bridget	385#724	Up 26 rank positions in five years	1973
Bella	2,129#136	Down 73 rank positions in five years	2010
Bianca	594#500	Down 80 rank positions in five years	1991
Bernadette	241#1,034	Up 411 rank positions in five years	1958
Brielle	2,071#143	Down 43 rank positions in five years	2018
Brooklynn	608#488	Down 226 rank positions in five years	2011
Brynn	767#407	Down 74 rank positions in five years	2011
Blair	1,806#169	Up 166 rank positions in five years	2025
Brynlee	1,282#243	Down 52 rank positions in five years	2019
Baylee	248#1,008	Down 228 rank positions in five years	1997
Blakely	1,638#191	Down 24 rank positions in five years	2024
Blake	1,035#295	Down 73 rank positions in five years	2021
Belle	247#1,013	Down 13 rank positions in five years	1915
Bria	199#1,163	Down 367 rank positions in five years	1993
Bailee	227#1,069	Down 219 rank positions in five years	2000
Briella	845#362	Down 65 rank positions in five years	2018
Birdie	422#670	Up 331 rank positions in five years	2025
Brinley	481#608	Down 246 rank positions in five years	2017
Belen	345#785	Up 96 rank positions in five years	2024
Brylee	255#992	Down 210 rank positions in five years	2011
Bristol	382#728	Down 237 rank positions in five years	2019
Braelyn	224#1,080	Down 393 rank positions in five years	2011
Braelynn	325#837	Down 392 rank positions in five years	2016
Blaire	802#384	Up 289 rank positions in five years	2025
Briar	778#400	Up 167 rank positions in five years	2025
Braylee	164#1,348	Down 445 rank positions in five years	2014
Berkley	301#888	Down 66 rank positions in five years	2021
Blessing	184#1,226	Down 183 rank positions in five years	2019
Beatrix	162#1,360	Down 194 rank positions in five years	2019
Brynleigh	338#807	Up 81 rank positions in five years	2022
Bellamy	341#797	Up 1 rank positions in five years	2022
Baylor	407#694	Up 333 rank positions in five years	2025
Brynley	196#1,183	Up 137 rank positions in five years	2017
Blossom	171#1,300	Up 1,302 rank positions in five years	2025
Baila	146#1,467	Up 105 rank positions in five years	2024
Bexley	268#963	Down 123 rank positions in five years	2021
Bennett	290#912	Up 960 rank positions in five years	2025

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B names climbing fastest

Bennett#912 Blair#169 Blaire#384 Bonnie#396 Birdie#670 Baylor#694 Billie#691 Briar#400 Belen#785 Brynleigh#807 Beatrice#508 Bridget#724

Biggest B names of all time

By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.

Barbara Betty Brenda Beverly Brittany Bonnie Brianna Bertha Brooke Beatrice Bernice Bessie

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Sources & methodology

Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.