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Bellatrix

#4,673 in 2025Girls' name

Female warrior

Bellatrix has been given to 355 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #4,673 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Bellatrix, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bellatrix: meaning, origin, and history

Female warrior

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bellatrix means

Bellatrix means “female warrior”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 girls were recorded with the name Bellatrix between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,973 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,692 in 2020 to #4,673 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,786 in 2015 to #4,673 in 2025.

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 Bellatrix?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 55,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,673
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bellatrix 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 2025 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bellatrix. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bellatrixs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bellatrix was born before 2020 — so the typical Bellatrix is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Bellatrix 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
−700
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,019
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+10,113
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.4%
Peak was 2022 (37)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,973
2024

Spellings of Bellatrix

Bellatrix is not the most common spelling — Beatrix is, with 92.0% against Bellatrix's 8.0%.

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 Bellatrix is used

Across 1910–2025, Bellatrix was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,664,335 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Bellatrix has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bellatrix around the world

Where Bellatrix 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
    2010–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bellatrix by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,673
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,019
Best rank ever
#3,973
2024
Peak year
2022
37 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
29

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Sibling names for Bellatrix

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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