Fun Facts About the Name Beaux
- More than 2 thousand babies named Beaux: U.S. records list 2,792 babies given the name Beaux from 1880 through 2025. Even 255 girls received the name Beaux - about 1 girl for every 10 boys.
What Does the Name Beaux Mean?
Beaux is a spelling variant of Beau, a name taken from the French adjective beau, meaning "beautiful" or "handsome." The French word comes from Latin bellus, "fine, pretty, handsome," which is commonly explained as a diminutive of bonus, "good." In French grammar beaux is the masculine plural of beau; in English use as a name, the final -x functions as a spelling variant that gives the name a French look rather than carrying a plural sense. The underlying meaning in both the singular and plural forms is the same.
Beaux Name History & Origins
The English word beau was borrowed from French in the 1600s, when it was used for a fashionable gentleman or a woman's suitor, and it appears in that sense in Restoration and eighteenth-century writing. Its use as a personal name is more recent and is chiefly American, appearing along with other French-derived names in the southern United States, especially Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, where French settlement and trade shaped local naming.
Beaux reproduces the French plural spelling of the same word. The form also occurs as a surname in French-speaking areas, which may have encouraged the -eaux ending as a given-name spelling alongside Beau. The phrase beaux-arts, "fine arts," is separately familiar in English through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Beaux-Arts style of architecture associated with it, which was widely adopted in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
How Popular is the Name Beaux?
Beaux recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Its best rank was #970 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,201 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #8,501 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2023 | #4,666 | 29 | 0.0018% |
| 2022 | #4,921 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2021 | #5,784 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2020 | #6,969 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2019 | #9,213 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #7,447 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2017 | #7,145 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2016 | #6,451 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2015 | #6,276 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2014 | #7,721 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2013 | #8,654 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #12,393 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2010 | #13,678 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2009 | #15,529 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #16,861 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #970 | 236 | 0.0138% |
| 2024 | #1,007 | 222 | 0.0129% |
| 2023 | #1,022 | 213 | 0.0125% |
| 2022 | #1,044 | 211 | 0.0121% |
| 2021 | #1,022 | 215 | 0.0123% |
| 2020 | #1,308 | 138 | 0.0080% |
| 2019 | #1,278 | 146 | 0.0081% |
| 2018 | #1,420 | 123 | 0.0068% |
| 2017 | #1,385 | 127 | 0.0069% |
| 2016 | #1,450 | 119 | 0.0063% |
| 2015 | #1,615 | 99 | 0.0052% |
| 2014 | #2,020 | 70 | 0.0036% |
| 2013 | #1,812 | 79 | 0.0042% |
| 2012 | #2,360 | 54 | 0.0028% |
| 2011 | #2,511 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 2010 | #3,313 | 33 | 0.0017% |
| 2009 | #3,111 | 37 | 0.0019% |
| 2008 | #3,654 | 29 | 0.0014% |
| 2007 | #4,018 | 25 | 0.0012% |
| 2006 | #3,030 | 36 | 0.0018% |
| 2005 | #4,208 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2004 | #5,030 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2003 | #3,741 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2002 | #6,131 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2001 | #6,504 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2000 | #4,413 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1999 | #6,588 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1998 | #6,370 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #5,688 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #6,037 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1995 | #6,465 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1994 | #4,317 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1993 | #4,727 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1992 | #4,901 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1991 | #5,128 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #4,436 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1989 | #7,031 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #5,803 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1987 | #4,603 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1986 | #4,893 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1985 | #5,855 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #4,637 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1981 | #6,373 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1980 | #3,870 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1979 | #5,419 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1977 | #3,868 | 9 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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