Bee
Bee is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 565th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199141 births
- Best rank
- #565in 1881
- Since 1881
- 1,692people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,023 boys have been named Bee in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 41 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 41 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1980s alone account for 26%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Bee is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are girls (669), most of them born around 1917.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Bee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 82 | |
| 1910s | 143 | |
| 1920s | 101 | |
| 1930s | 25 | |
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 6 | |
| 1970s | 13 | |
| 1980s | 266 | |
| 1990s | 238 | |
| 2000s | 6 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Bee was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Bee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mosepeak 1919
- Wmpeak 1916
- Claudpeak 1919
- Alfpeak 1916
- Dockpeak 1920
- Ciceropeak 1920
- Eddpeak 1919
- Gusspeak 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.