Beau: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced BOH · 1 syllable

Beau means “handsome”, from French.

Shortened from surname type given names such as Beauregard or Beaumont, or from the French word beau.

How popular is Beau?

Beau was the #60 name in the US in 2025, given to 5,224 babies. It’s rising: up 204% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Beau in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Beau are older than 36; most are between 19 and 53. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Beau have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Beau means “handsome”. It comes from French.

Beau is pronounced BOH.

Beau was the #60 name in the US in 2025, given to 5,224 babies. It’s rising: up 204% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Beau are older than 36. Most are between 19 and 53.