How popular is the baby name Beatrice in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Beatrice.
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In mid-1913, several towns were established in Sheridan County, Montana, along the “Soo Line” (the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad).
One of these towns was named Dooley after homesteader W. D. Dooley.
In January of 1914, the town of Dooley welcomed its first baby. She was the daughter of Dooley’s first postmaster, Peter T. Hegseth, and his wife Inga.
What was she named? Dooliette, nickname “Doo.”
The town thrived for several years, and the population peaked at nearly 400 residents. After that, Dooley slowly declined. It was a ghost town by the 1960s.
(The Hegseth family — which included five more children named Jenkins, Maynard, Beatrice, Charlotte, and Marjorie — moved westward to Washington in the early 1920s.)
Sources:
Aarstad, Rich, Ellen Arguimbau, Ellen Baumler, Charlene L. Porsild, & Brian Shovers. Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2009.
In 2023, the Southern European country of Italy welcomed 379,890 babies — 184,514 girls and 195,376 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Sofia and Leonardo, yet again.
Here are Italy’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Sofia, 4,971 baby girls
Aurora, 4,648
Ginevra, 4,274
Vittoria, 4,194
Giulia, 3,732
Beatrice, 3,425 – pronounced beh-a-TREE-cheh
Ludovica, 3,157
Alice, 3,014 – pronounced a-LEE-cheh
Emma, 2,529
Matilde, 2,465
Anna, 2,128
Camilla, 2,091
Bianca, 1,992
Azzurra, 1,922
Chiara, 1,914 – pronounced KYAH-rah
Nicole, 1,792
Giorgia, 1,780
Isabel, 1,667
Greta, 1,635
Noemi, 1,439
Martina, 1,392
Arianna, 1,389
Gaia, 1,370
Sara, 1,368
Rebecca, 1,328
Viola, 1,325
Elena, 1,270
Ambra, 1,257
Chloe, 1,196 (tie)
Diana, 1,196 (tie)
Adele, 1,194
Mia, 1,192
Margherita, 1,095
Sole, 1,088 – pronounced SOH-leh
Francesca, 1,082
Cecilia, 1,060
Gioia, 1,018
Emily, 1,017
Marta, 964
Elisa, 953
Nina, 929
Lavinia, 912
Anita, 875
Amelia, 870
Eleonora, 853
Carlotta, 833
Maria, 803
Celeste, 788
Eva, 751
Giada, 735
Boy names
Leonardo, 7,096 baby boys
Edoardo, 5,603
Tommaso, 4,687
Francesco, 4,534
Alessandro, 4,383
Mattia, 4,349
Lorenzo, 4,006
Gabriele, 3,954
Riccardo, 3,600
Andrea, 3,333
Diego, 2,722
Giuseppe, 2,661
Matteo, 2,648
Enea, 2,564
Nicolò, 2,444
Antonio, 2,424
Federico, 2,313
Giovanni, 2,093
Filippo, 2,046
Samuele, 2,041
Pietro, 1,993
Giulio, 1,749
Gioele, 1,641 – pronounced jo-EH-leh
Davide, 1,597
Michele, 1,590
Christian, 1,541
Elia, 1,522
Gabriel, 1,497
Noah, 1,386
Marco, 1,353
Salvatore, 1,324
Liam, 1,236
Luca, 1,230
Vincenzo, 1,211
Thomas, 1,146
Emanuele, 1,100
Alessio, 1,056
Nathan, 1,007
Giorgio, 1,006
Samuel, 1,005
Jacopo, 1,002
Giacomo, 1,000
Ettore, 970
Raffael, 900
Daniele, 899
Simone, 892
Luigi, 886
Damiano, 830
Domenico, 818
Santiago, 798
The girls’ top 100 included Anastasia (57th), Sveva (75th), Mariasole (83rd), and Letizia (97th).
The boys’ top 100 included Ludovico (56th), Niccolò (66th), Brando (73rd), and Ciro (94th).
The girl name Azzurra (which is associated with Italy’s national soccer team gli Azzurri, “the Blues”) ranked 20th in both 2022 and 2021 before jumping to 12th place last year.
Speaking of soccer…I recently learned that Italian soccer star Francesco Totti (who played for AS Roma from 1993 to 2017) influenced baby names in Italy via the names of his three children:
The usage of Cristian rose after his son Cristian was born in November of 2005:
2006: 3,028 boys named Cristian (rank: 25th)
2005: 1,619 boys named Cristian (rank: 39th)
2004: 1,616 boys named Cristian (rank: 38th)
The usage of Chanel rose after his daughter Chanel was born in May of 2007:
2008: 158 girls named Chanel (rank: 189th)
2007: 63 girls named Chanel (rank: 314th)
2006: fewer than five girls named Chanel
The usage of Isabel rose after his daughter Isabel was born in March of 2016:
During the second quarter of the 20th century, Rudolph August Schoelzel and Olivia Henrietta Schoelzel (née Gutenberger) of Colby, Wisconsin, welcomed 21 children — 10 girls and 11 boys.
In yesterday’s post about the name Castara I mentioned a medicine called Castoria, which was a senna-based laxative made for children.
Castoria was developed in the mid-19th century by Massachusetts doctor Samuel Pitcher, who patented the medicine in 1868 and sold it as “Pitcher’s Castoria.” Three years later, the formula was purchased by the Centaur Company (headed by Charles H. Fletcher) and renamed “Fletcher’s Castoria.”
Advertising was the key to Castoria’s success. The Centaur Company “became a pioneer in mass marketing […] distributing millions of printed trade cards, running long-standing advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and painting the sides of hundreds of buildings.” (Case in point: You can see a massive Fletcher’s Castoria ad on the side of a building during the opening seconds of this clip of a train ride on the Brooklyn Bridge, recorded in 1899 by none other than Thomas Edison.) Castoria’s ubiquitous advertisements were so effective that the medicine continued to sell well for many decades — long after its patent had expired in 1885.
But the SSA’s data doesn’t give a full picture of the name’s actual usage.
Records reveal that hundreds of U.S. babies were named Castoria, and that the majority of these babies were born after the medicine was put on the market. Some examples…
So, how did the medicine come to be called Castoria?
The inventor (Dr. Pitcher) named it after castor oil, a well-known laxative. (Marketing copy from the mid-1870s states, “Castoria is more than a substitute for Castor Oil.”) Castor oil, in turn, was likely named after an older medicine, castoreum — an oily fluid produced by beavers. And castoreum’s name is simply based on castor, the Latin word for “beaver.”
Interestingly, Fletcher’s Castoria remains on the market to this day, though it’s now called “Fletcher’s Laxative.”
P.S. Some of the earliest Castoria ads were rhymed verse that invariably paired “Castoria” with the name “Victoria.” One poem, for instance, included the lines: “The darling girls all named Victoria / And with the boys, they have Castoria.”
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