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Name Bea

Meaning:

traveller, pilgrim

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About the name Bea in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	German
Is short form of:	Beatrix
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Bear, Beat, Beau, Beda, Béla, Ben, Bia, Brea, Dea, Ea Details

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About Beatrix, the group of names with the same origin as Bea

Meaning/translation:	traveller, pilgrim
Language of origin:	Latin
Info about origin:	originally the female form Viatrix of a late Latin name Viator with the meaning traveller, pilgrim
	later associated with Latin beatus (happy, blessed), with a purported meaning of she who makes happy
Words:	viator = the traveller, the pilgrim Latin
	beatus = happy Latin
	beare = to make happy Latin
Topics:	Words
Variants' top ranks:	2:Beatriz Portugal 2009, 5:Beatrice Italy 2021, 17:Bea Philippines 2005, 75:Beatrix Hungary 2003, 98:Bia Portugal 2018, 147:Béatrice Belgium 2013
Somehow related to:	Beat/Beate
Old/original forms:	Viatrix Latin
Name variants:	Bea, Beatrice, Béatrice, Beatrix, Beatriz, Bia, Bice, Trixi Sortable list Details

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Popularity lists that contain the name Bea

Series	Graph	Rankings
Finland/Finnish	Graph	2023 46, 2022 46
Philippines		2005 17