Given name
Béatrice
“the blessed one”
Béatrice is a feminine given name. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Béatrice goes back to Latin Beatrix, meaning “the blessed one.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Béatrice’s family of names
In French usage, Béatrice has a diminutive in Béa. In French usage, Béatrice shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Beyatrice. In French usage, Béatrice has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Beatriz.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Béatrice has relatives in 15 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
18 related names in 15 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 19
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Béatrice
- Beatrice PortinariDante's muse1266–1290
- Béatrice DalleFrench actressborn 1964
- Cœur de pirateCanadian musicianborn 1989
- Beatrice of Navarre, Duchess of BurgundyDuchess of Burgundy1246–1295
- Beatrice Lascaris di TendaDuchess of Milan1372–1418
- Béatrice AtallahMalagasy politician from Lebanese originsborn 1959
- Béatrice Hiéronyme de LorraineFrench princess and abbess (1662-1738)
- Béatrice RomandFrench actressborn 1952
- Béatrice PoulotFrench singerborn 1968
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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