Beaty
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Beaty is a surname, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the personal name Beattie, a Scottish pet-form of Bartholomew; or from Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh.
- MYMalaysia1 in 155◐
- SGSingapore1 in 8.8K
- CACanada1 in 9.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈201 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 404 ●
- 1 in 2.2M ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
397K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Beatty in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 8 more, Bt in MY Malaysia, IN India, ID Indonesia and 2 more, B'T in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, DZ Algeria and 2 more and บูท in TH Thailand.
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●
From the personal name Beattie, a Scottish pet-form of Bartholomew; or from Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #8 | 418,321 | 29K rec. | — | — | Bt | 55 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 16,060 | 15K rec. | — | listed | Beatty | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | 7,981 | 7.8K rec. | — | — | Beatty | 128 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,682 | 6.4K rec. | — | 1 | Beatty | 119 |
| IN India | — | 3,460 | 1.2K rec. | — | 3.5K | Bt | 56 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 3,388 | 7.9K rec. | — | listed | Bt | 72 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,928 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | B'T | 45 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,502 | 1.6K rec. | — | 1 | Beatty | 11 |
| SG Singapore | #522 | 1,201 | 917 rec. | — | — | Bt | 20 |
| TH Thailand | — | 1,157 | 1.1K rec. | — | #313,722 | บูท | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,056 | 620 rec. | — | — | Bt | 12 |
| IE Ireland | — | 815 | 872 rec. | — | — | Beatty | 64 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English109K86%
- Spanish4K3%
- 3.3K3%
- French9591%
- German9011%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 109,467 | 86% |
| Spanish | 3,980 | 3% |
| 3,330 | 3% | |
| French | 959 | 1% |
| German | 901 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Beaty is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A Scottish form of BATEY; first attested Baty, Flessor c1340 Black.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Baty, Flessor c1340 Black; David filius Bety 1342 ib.; John Bety 1558 ib.; Hew Batie 1569 ib. A Scottish form of BATEY.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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.
Notable people with this name●
- James Beatyb. 1831CACanadian politician (1831-1899)
- Powhatan Beatyb. 1837USUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1837-1916)
- Frank Beatyb. 1919USAmerican basketball player
- Zelmo Beatyb. 1939USAmerican basketball player (1939–2013)
- Daniel Beatyb. 1975USAmerican actor, singer, writer, composer and poet
- Maev Beatyb. 1977actress
- Lacey Beatyb. 1984USAmerican politician
- Matt Beatyb. 1993USAmerican baseball player
- Madisen Beatyb. 1995USAmerican actress
- Daniel Beatyscreenwriter
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●
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 17 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Beaty?
- We estimate roughly 201 people bear Beaty (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Beaty have the most bearers?
- Beaty is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled bt.
- How common is Beaty compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Beaty is the 8th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Beaty mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the personal name Beattie, a Scottish pet-form of Bartholomew; or from Gaelic Mac Bhiadhtaigh.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Beaty” — the 8th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.