Beate
Fewer than 150 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. Latin at root, from a word meaning "blessed".
Beate Pronunciation
Beate is pronounced be-AH-te (/bɛˈatɛ/).
What Beate means
Where Beate comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Beate begins in Latin. The word beata is the feminine of beatus, and it means blessed. Roman Christians used beatus for the holy dead, the ones named blessed in prayer. German speakers took the word and turned it into a given name.
In Germany the name settled and stayed. Beate Uhse, born in 1919, held a rare stunt-flying license and flew ferry flights during the war before she built a mail-order business afterward. Her fame carried the small Latin root far past where it started.
A Polish ear catches something foreign in Beate, that hard final e. Picture a name-day list at school, the teacher pausing on it. The name holds its plain sense all the same. It means blessed, from Latin beata.
How many people are named Beate
1 in 155475 women in Poland is named Beate. 145 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2690 among female names.
Beate as a middle name
Beate is a first name for 145 women in Poland and a middle name for another 77, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 752nd, between Arlena (77) and Bozena (77).
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