Beáta
Just 31 women in Poland carry this accented spelling, and no girls have been given it since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet one. At root it's the Latin for "blessed", from the same word behind the plainer Beata.
Beáta Pronunciation
Beáta is pronounced BEÁ-tah (/ˈbɛáta/).
What Beáta means
Where Beáta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Beáta comes from Latin, from the adjective beatus, beata, beatum, meaning blessed and happy. Roman writers used beatus for a person favoured by fortune, someone in a good state of life. The name grew from that everyday word. The meaning stayed close to the root.
The plainer variant beata drops the accent and is the form most Polish registers use. Say either one in a school class register and a teacher reads it the same way. Both hold the same sense: błogosławiona, szczęśliwa, blessed and fortunate. The accented Beáta keeps a mark that points back toward Hungarian and Slovak spelling, where the long vowel is standard.
In Poland the name arrives with an imieniny, a name-day when a Beata gets flowers and a short greeting at the door. Latin gave the word, Polish gave the daily use. What a bearer carries is old and simple: beata, blessed.
How many people are named Beáta
1 in 727220 women in Poland is named Beáta. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7254 among female names.
Beáta as a middle name
Beáta is a first name for 31 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5627th, between Beulah (2) and Bhagwat (2).
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#5625 Betelhem2
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#5626 Beulah2
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#5627 Beáta2
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#5628 Bhagwat2
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#5629 Bharathi2