Given name
Beate
“one who is serious”
Beate is used as a given name. One German interpretation is “one who is serious.”
Original GermanBeata
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who is serious.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Beate through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,062 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Beate’s family of names
Beate has a related form in Beatrice. In German usage, Beate has a related form in Beata. In Danish usage, Beate has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Beata.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Beate has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Beate comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Beate
- Beate Uhse-RotermundGerman pilot and sex shop entrepreneur (1919–2001)
- Beate EriksenNorwegian director and actorborn 1960
- Beate Meinl-ReisingerAustrian jurist and politician (born 1978)
- Beate SchrottAustrian hurdlerborn 1988
- Beate SchrammEast German rowerborn 1966
- Beate Sirota GordonAustrian-born performing arts producer and women's rights activist1923–2012
- Beate KochEast German javelin throwerborn 1967
- Beate GrimsrudNorwegian writer (1963-2020)
- Beate ZschäpeGerman far-right extremistborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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