Beatrice (given name)
Further information: Beatrix and Beatrice (disambiguation)
| Beatrice | |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's depiction of Dante's Beatrice in Beata Beatrix | |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Latin |
| Meaning | "bringer of joy,blessings" |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Beatrix, Béatrice, Beatriz |
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Look up Beatrice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Beatrice (/ˈbiː.ətrɪs/ or /ˈbiː.trɪs/;[1] Italian: [be.aˈtriːtʃe]) is a name derived from the French name Béatrice, which came from the Latin Beatrix, which means "she who makes happy".[2]
Beatrice is the Italian language variant. The French form is Béatrice, and the Spanish and Portuguese form is Beatriz.
The popularity of the name spread because of Dante Alighieri's poetry about the Florentine woman Beatrice Portinari.
The name is rising in popularity in the United Kingdom. It is also gaining popularity in the United States, where ranked as the 691st most popular name for baby girls born in 2012.
Name variants
Alternate versions of the name include
- Beata (Polish, Swedish)
- Beate (German, Norwegian)
- Beatha (Irish)
- Beatrica (Croatian, Slovakian)
- Béatrice (French)
- Beatrice (Italian)
- Beatričė (Lithuanian)
- Beatrijs (Dutch)
- Beatrika (Slovene)
- Βεατρίκη (Veatriki) (Greek)
- Beatris (English)
- Beatrisa (German)
- Beatrise (Latvian)
- Beatriss (English)
- Beatriu (Catalan)
- Beatrix (Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Latin)
- Beatriz (Galician, Portuguese, Spanish)
- Beatrycze (Polish)
- Beitris (Scottish Gaelic)
- Betrys (Welsh)
Short forms include
- Bea (Dutch, English, German, Galician, Spanish)
- Béa (French)
- Beah (English)
- Beat (English, Polish)
- Beatie (English)
- Bee (English)
- Bia (Portuguese)
- Bice (Italian)
- Trix (Dutch, English)
- Trixi (English, German)
- Trixie (English)
- Trixy (English)
People with the given name Beatrice
Film, television and the stage
- Beatrice Alda, American actress
- Beatrice Arthur, American actress who starred in The Golden Girls.
- Beatrice Boepple, American actress best known as Amanda Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
- Beatrice Colen, American actress who starred in recurring roles on both Happy Days and Wonder Woman
- Beatrice Politi, Canadian television journalist
- Beatrice Roberts, American singer/stage performer
- Beatrice Winde, American actress
- Bebe Neuwirth, American Actress better known as Lilith on "Frasier" and "Cheers", Velma Kelly in the 1996 revival of Chicago
Sport
- Beatrice Căslaru, Romanian swimmer
- Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand Olympic Champion Discus thrower
- Beatrice Jepchumba, a Kenyan runner
- Beatrice Lanza, Italian triathlete
- Beatrice Mouthon, French triathlete
- Beatrice Utondu, Nigerian sprinter
Politics and visible public positions
- Beatrice of Nazareth, Flemish nun and mystic writer
- Beatrice Plummer, Baroness Plummer, a British Peeress and Justice of the Peace for Essex
- Beatrice Wright, American-born British politician
- Princess Beatrice (disambiguation), several princesses have been named Beatrice
- Saint Beatrice (disambiguation), name of several Christian saints
Miscellaneous
- Beatrice Cenci, Italian woman in the 16th century who died by decapitation
- Beatrice Hastings, (pen-name) lover of Modigliani
- Beatrice M. Hinkle, American feminist psychoanalyst
- Beatrice Portinari, Dante Alighieri's great love and muse
- Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, British Government minister and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
- Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist
- Beatrice Trew, Canadian socialist
- Beatrice Warde, American communicator on typography
- Beatrice Webb, English writer
- Beatrice (singer), singer in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999
- Beatrice McCartney, Paul McCartney's daughter with Heather Mills
Fictional people
- Beatrice Severn, Wormold's secretary, though the more professional agent, in Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana
- Beatrice (inspired by Beatrice Portinari), the guide through Paradise in Dante's Divina Commedia
- Beatrice, a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
- Beatrice The Bear from Hoot
- Beatrice Baudelaire the Second, a fictional character from A Series of Unfortunate Events and the daughter of Kit Snicket
- Beatrice Baudelaire the First, the Baudelaire children's mother in A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Beatrice Carbone, one of the cast of characters in A View from the Bridge, a play by Arthur Miller
- Beatrice, the Dream Demon in Sony PlayStation Role Playing Game Wild Arms 3
- Beatrice, the Endless and Golden Witch in Umineko no Naku Koro ni
- Beatrice Rappaccini, daughter of Giacomo Rappaccini in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
- Beatrice, a character in the manga Gunslinger Girl
- Beatrice Rumfoord, wife of Winston Niles Rumfoord in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
- Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby from Beezus and Ramona
- Beatrice Grimaldi, a Princess in Gossip Girl.
- Beatrice Hotchkiss, in Nancy Drew Treasure in the Royal Tower, and Nancy Drew Legend of the Crystal Skull
- Beatrice "Tris" Prior, the main character in the Divergent series of books and movies
See also
- Princess Beatrice (disambiguation), name of several princesses
- Saint Beatrice (disambiguation), name of several Christian saints
- Beatrijs, a 13th-century Dutch poem about a nun with this name
- All pages beginning with "Beatrice"
References
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