Beau
99
Babies in 2024
-64%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 302
-6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Beau
Beau has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 99 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 64% on a decade earlier.
Beau reached its peak in 2012, when 302 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #169 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 33% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,231 girls have been officially registered with the name Beau in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,703 girls were registered with the name, starting from 277 in 2014 and ending at 99 in 2024.