# Beaumont (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/beaumont/  
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 |
| Origin | Norman |
| Meaning | “beautiful”, “mountain” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈboʊ.mɑnt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Bo |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 359 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 359 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 83, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Inherited from Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from beau (“beautiful”) + mont (“mountain”). Cognate with French Beaumont. Doublet of Belmont.

## What it means

Beaumont is grouped under beauty and mountain.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | 8,896 |
| 2011 | 6 | 10,968 |
| 2012 | 6 | 10,948 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,084 |
| 2015 | 9 | 8,115 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,664 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,555 |
| 2018 | 26 | 4,004 |
| 2019 | 22 | 4,501 |
| 2020 | 25 | 4,033 |
| 2021 | 22 | 4,510 |
| 2022 | 26 | 4,102 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,014 |
| 2024 | 31 | 3,619 |
| 2025 | 50 | 2,609 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2,730 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## In other languages

- French: Beaumont
- Hindi: बोमों
- Korean: 보몽

## People named Beaumont

- Beaumont Newhall, American curator, art historian, writer and photographer (1908–1993)
- Beaumont Asquith, English footballer (1910-1977)
- William Stanley Braithwaite, American writer, poet and literary critic (1878-1962)

## 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.