Beate

Girls' name

Derived form of Beata

Beate has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Beate, 1969

1 in 695,000

Beate over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beate: meaning, origin, and history

Derived form of Beata

Latin

What Beate means

Beate is a derived form of Beata.

Origin, language, and formation

Beate is used in Danish, German and Norwegian. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Beata.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Beate between 1960 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1960; its best national rank was #6,442 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Beate?

Beate had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969: 1 in 695,000; 5 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only: 1 in 337,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,756 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Beate sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beate. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beates were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beate was born before 1960 — so the typical Beate is around 65 today.

Median birth year: 1960; About 65 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Beate rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1960 (5)
Years since peak: 65; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #6,442; 1960

Spellings of Beate

Beate is not the most common spelling — Betty is, with 70.2% against Beate's <0.01%.

Betty70.2%1,001,238
Beth11.2%159,430
Kate6.0%85,987
Bettie2.7%38,395
Bette2.4%34,897
Bettye1.6%22,920
Blake1.4%20,065
Belle1.3%19,227

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Beate around the world

Where Beate ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2018–2018
#5,666
in 2018
France
1954–1954
#1,598
in 1954
Norway
1880–2017
#520
in 2017
South Australia
1951–1951
#423
in 1951

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Beate by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,442; 1960
Peak year: 1960; 5 that year
First recorded: 1960
Last recorded: 1969
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Beate

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Beautii Beasley Beaula Beasia Beah Beatta Beatha Beaney Beauti Beanna Beaux Beather Beaonca Ivykate Bearnice Beauford Jurate Beanca Vilate Hecate Beauton Beatrica Beautyful Beatrize

Sibling names for Beate

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jannette Joellen Venita Gaye Teressa Maryjo Renita Jeanetta

For a brother

Lindsay Rod Curtiss Dino Mitch Randell Russ Art

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