Beaulah
Beaulah is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 578th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192181 births
- Best rank
- #578in 1900
- Since 1882
- 2,273people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,273 girls have been named Beaulah in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 81 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 81 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 44 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Beaulah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 52 | |
| 1890s | 160 | |
| 1900s | 246 | |
| 1910s | 514 | |
| 1920s | 678 | |
| 1930s | 309 | |
| 1940s | 209 | |
| 1950s | 80 | |
| 1960s | 20 | |
| 1970s | 5 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Beaulah was the 814th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Beaulah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verdapeak 1918
- Hildapeak 1921
- Etherpeak 1921
- Eulapeak 1919
- Mablepeak 1922
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Henrettapeak 1916
- Inezpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.