How Many People Are Named Bee?
people named Bee are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 474,042 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,700 babies named Bee in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
48 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of BEATRIX and other names beginning with B.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Bee in English. Counting Bee and these spellings together, about 2,104 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Bee, 29.2% were girls and 70.8% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Bee fell from 35.4% in the 1890s to 19.9% in the 1990s. It was highest in the 1910s, at 55.9%.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Bee alive today is about 37 years old, and 76% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 31 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Bee first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1990, to 48 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Bee has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #565, in 1881. Among girls, its best rank was #829, in 1883.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | #11,091 |
| Best rank | #565 (1881) | #829 (1883) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,148 in the 1980s | #1,591 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Bee alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Bee were born in California than in any other state: about 229 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Bee was given 10.9 times as often in Wisconsin and 4.6 times in California.
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