# Beate (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/beate/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 10 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | 6,443 |
| 1969 | 5 | 7,566 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |

## People named Beate

- Beate Klarsfeld, Franco-German journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian (born 1939)
- Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Austrian jurist and politician (born 1978)
- Beate Schrott, Austrian hurdler
- Beate Schramm, East German rower
- Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-born performing arts producer and women's rights activist
- Beate Koch, East German javelin thrower
- Beate Zschäpe, German far-right extremist
- Beate Deininger, German field hockey player
- Beate Peters, German javelin thrower
- Beate Baumgartner, Austrian singer
- Beate Bille, Danish actress
- Beate Bühler, German beach volleyball player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.