Beata
Nearly 280,000 Polish women carry it, but almost no one gives it now: just 27 girls last year. Hebrew at root, with the meaning "blessed".
Beata Pronunciation
Beata is pronounced be-AH-tah (/bɛˈata/).
What Beata means
Where Beata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Beata means blessed. In Polish that comes out as błogosławiona, and the name has held to that meaning steadily since it entered the country's parish registers.
The origin traces to Hebrew, to the old language of blessing, where the idea of being set apart for good fortune first took shape. For a girl given the name, the word marked a status, someone spoken well of and wished well. The sense of blessing was never decorative.
Open a Polish name-day calendar and Beata appears more than once, on 8 March and again on 6 September among other dates. On her imieniny a Beata might arrive at the office to find her desk marked with flowers and small wrapped gifts, the name doing its plain yearly work. Whatever the date, the word underneath stays the same: błogosławiona, blessed.
When Beata celebrates name day
Beata appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 3 of them as a main name, the first on 8 March.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Beata
1 in 81 women in Poland is named Beata. 279,226 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #39 among female names.
Beata's popularity over time
27 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #454 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #39 name among living women, even as it slips to #454 among newborns.
Where parents choose Beata
Beata is most popular in Lublin, 74% above the national average (16 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Podlaskie (+70%) and Pomeranian (+67%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Łódź, 63% and 47% below average respectively.
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Lublin
+74%1 in 6,417 babies
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Podlaskie
+70%1 in 6,579 babies
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Pomeranian
+67%1 in 6,696 babies
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Subcarpathian
−63%1 in 30,141 babies
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Łódź
−47%1 in 21,120 babies
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Greater Poland
−27%1 in 15,375 babies
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Lublin+74% 16 born1 in 6,417 babies+74%
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Podlaskie+70% 10 born1 in 6,579 babies+70%
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Pomeranian+67% 22 born1 in 6,696 babies+67%
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Silesian+18% 24 born1 in 9,483 babies+18%
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Lower Silesian+14% 16 born1 in 9,821 babies+14%
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Lubusz+13% 5 born1 in 9,931 babies+13%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+2% 10 born1 in 10,938 babies+2%
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Masovian+1% 32 born1 in 11,071 babies+1%
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Opole−3% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies−3%
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West Pomeranian−7% 7 born1 in 12,061 babies−7%
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Lesser Poland−11% 18 born1 in 12,606 babies−11%
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Warmian-Masurian−22% 5 born1 in 14,359 babies−22%
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Greater Poland−27% 14 born1 in 15,375 babies−27%
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Łódź−47% 6 born1 in 21,120 babies−47%
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Subcarpathian−63% 4 born1 in 30,141 babies−63%
Beata as a middle name
Beata is a first name for 279,226 women in Poland and a middle name for another 120,044, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 22nd, between Stanisława (120,903) and Weronika (118,474).
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#20 Danuta129,132
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#21 Stanisława120,903
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#22 Beata120,044
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#23 Weronika118,474
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#24 Irena117,720