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Beaulah

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Beaulah has been given to 2,273 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1921, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Beaulah, 1973

1 in 603,000

Beaulah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beaulah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Beaulah means

Beaulah is a given name.

The naming story behind Beaulah

Wikidata records Beaulah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q35282646, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,273 girls were recorded with the name Beaulah between 1882 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 81 in 1921; its best national rank was #578 in 1900.

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.

How common is Beaulah?

Beaulah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 603,000
5 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Beaulah 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 1973 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 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beaulah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beaulahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beaulah was born before 1922 — so the typical Beaulah is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
105
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1920s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (678).

Is Beaulah 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (81)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#578
1900

Spellings of Beaulah

Beaulah is not the most common spelling — Beulah is, with 89.2% against Beaulah's 2.8%.

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.

Where Beaulah is used

Across 1910–2025, Beaulah was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 103,642 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 25,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 33,333
  4. 4Missouri1 in 100,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Beaulah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Beaulah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Beaulah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Beulah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Beaulah 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
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Best rank ever
#578
1900
Peak year
1921
81 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
2,273
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Beaulah

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

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Names with a curve like Beaulah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Beaulah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Beaulah

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

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