Béatrice
Fewer than three dozen women in Poland carry this French name, and no girl has been given it in a quarter century. It comes from Latin for "bringer of joy".
Béatrice Pronunciation
Béatrice is pronounced béaht-REE-tse (/béatˈrit͡sɛ/).
What Béatrice means
Where Béatrice comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Béatrice comes from the Latin word beatus, meaning blessed. French speakers gave it the accent and the soft ending it now wears, and the sense of a woman who brings joy grew alongside the older sense of one who is blessed. The short meaning most people repeat, bringer of joy, was attached later. The Latin root points only to blessing.
Dante fixed the name in memory. He made Beatrice his guide through the Paradiso, modeled on Beatrice Portinari of Florence, a real woman he had known. After that poem the name stopped being ordinary.
Polish took its own spelling. Beatrycze is the variant a Polish reader meets, closer to the Latin Beatrix than the French form. A girl named Beatrycze finds her imieniny and her place in the class register without translating anything.
The French Béatrice and the Polish Beatrycze share one Latin parent and one plain meaning: blessed.
How many people are named Béatrice
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Béatrice. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7108 among female names.
Béatrice as a middle name
Béatrice is a first name for 32 women in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 74/26 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2251st, between Bregida (11) and Candelaria (11).
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#2249 Bogusia11
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#2250 Bregida11
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#2251 Béatrice11
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#2252 Candelaria11
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#2253 Charity11