This is my third Beatrice post on this blog, since I love the name that much. It’s such a beautiful, timeless, versatile classic, and hasn’t gotten über-trendy like certain other names which were once considered too musty and geriatric (e.g., Ava, Max, Sophia, Emma, Henry, Oliver). I and many of my fellow name nerds were worried Beatrice might suddenly become trendy and shoot up the charts after Paul McCartney used it on his surprise fifth child, but that thankfully didn’t happen.
I also love this name because Beatrice was Dante’s great unrequited love, his muse, his inspiration, his guide through Paradise and the final leg of Purgatory. He wrote The Divine Comedy to immortalize her for all time.
Beatrice is used in English, Italian, and Swedish. Other forms include:
1. Beatrix is Dutch, German, Hungarian, and English. Trixie is the Dutch and English nickname, while Trixi is Hungarian.
2. Beatrisa (my favorite alternate form) is Russian and Georgian.
3. Beatriz is Spanish and Portuguese.
4. Beatrise is Latvian.
5. Béatrice is French.
6. Beatriu is Catalan.
7. Viatrix is the original Latin form.
8. Beatrycze is Polish, and quite odd for a Polish feminine name. It’s the only one that doesn’t end in A.
9. Betrys is Welsh.
10. Beitris is Scottish.
11. Batirtze is Basque. This is a modern, not traditional, name.
12. Beatrica is Serbian and Croatian.
13. Béatris is Gascon. The alternate form Beatris is Medieval Occitan, Spanish, and Flemish.
14. Beatricia is Middle English.
15. Beatrijs is Flemish and an alternate Dutch form.
16. Beatrisia is Medieval Italian, Occitan, French, and German.
17. Beatritz is Provençal.
18. Beatrys is Medieval and West Flemish.
19. Bétry is a local variant used in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France until the 18th century.
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