Beata

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Беата in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Beáta in SK Slovakia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Beata is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name2.7K records spelled Beata3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada

  Also written Beáta, Beäta

• Lithuanian given name1.3K records spelled Beata3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

  Also written Beāta

• Korean given name147 records spelled Beata3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, South Korea

  Also written 베아타, Beáta

• a separate given name72 records spelled Beata2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Beáta

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Beata is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Benedetta

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• In cdo, to slice meat, minced meat, (sidh} mode of pronunciation or spellto investigate minutely

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• Late Latin feminine form of Be tus ‘blessed’. St Beata is the name of an early Christian saint martyred at an unknown date in North Africa. The name is widely used among Roman Catholics in Germany, Poland, and elsewhere; it is less common in the English–speaking world.

  as a word

• In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of beat

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, a female given name of Latin origin

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 96 years between 1893–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Beata Kościeleckab. 1515SKPolish magnate heiress
• Beata Asimakopouloub. 1932GRGreek actress (1932–2009)
• Beata Tyszkiewiczb. 1938PLPolish actress
• Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltzb. 1952PLnot in their usual namePolish politician
• Beata Pozniakb. 1960PLPolish-American actress
• Beata Szydłob. 1963PLPolish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland, member of European Parliament
• Helena af Sandebergb. 1971SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
• Beata Sokołowska-Kuleszab. 1974PLPolish canoeist
• Beata Mikołajczykb. 1985PLPolish canoeist
• Beata Anderssonb. 2005SESwedish singer and actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 473 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Beata?

We estimate roughly 330 thousand people bear Beata (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Beata have the most bearers?

We estimate about 278 thousand people bear Beata in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled beata.

Where is Beata most common?

Beata is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 137 people carrying it.

How common is Beata compared with other names?

In Poland, Beata is the 43rd most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.

Is Beata a male or female name?

Beata is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Beata mean?

Recorded meaning: Beata är ett latinskt namn, en femininform av beatus ’lycklig; salig’.