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Baby name
Beau
Boy
Origin of the name
Beau comes from the French beau, “handsome.”
Rising name
65,592births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 60rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Beau are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Beau is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Beau is most common in Montana (3.6 times), Wyoming (2.9) and Idaho (2.8), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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