Beatrice (given name)

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Beatrice

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's depiction of Dante's Beatrice in Beata Beatrix
Gender Female
Origin
Word/Name Latin
Meaning "holly, saint"
Other names
Related names Beatrix, Béatrice, Beatriz
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Beatrice (/ˈbiː.ətrɪs/; Italian: [be.aˈtriːtʃe]) is a name derived from the Latin Beatrix, which is a feminine form of the late Latin name Viator, meaning "voyager, traveler". Viatrix was also a common name amongst early Christians, though the spelling was altered by association with the Latin beatus, meaning "blessed". Beatrice is the Italian language variant. The French form is Béatrice and the Spanish and Portuguese form is Beatriz.

The popularity of the name spread because of Dante Alighieri's poetry about the Florentine woman Beatrice Portinari.

The name is rising in popularity in the United Kingdom. It is also gaining popularity in the United States, where ranked as the 691st most popular name for baby girls born in 2012.

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People with the given name Beatrice

Film, television and the stage

Sport

Politics and visible public positions

Miscellaneous

Fictional people

  • Beatrice Severn, Wormold's secretary, though the more professional agent, in Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana
  • Beatrice (inspired by Beatrice Portinari), the guide through Paradise in Dante's Divina Commedia
  • Beatrice, a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
  • Beatrice The Bear from Hoot
  • Beatrice Baudelaire, a fictional character from A Series of Unfortunate Events and the daughter of Kit Snicket
  • Beatrice Baudelaire, the Baudelaire children's mother in A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Beatrice Carbone, one of the cast of characters in A View from the Bridge, a play by Arthur Miller
  • Beatrice, the Dream Demon in Sony PlayStation Role Playing Game Wild Arms 3
  • Beatrice, in Umineko no Naku Koro ni, also known as the 'Golden Witch'
  • Beatrice Rappaccini, daughter of Giacomo Rappaccini in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter"
  • Beatrice, a character in the manga Gunslinger Girl
  • Beatrice Rumfoord, wife of Winston Niles Rumfoord in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan
  • Beatrice Beezus Quimby from Beezus and Ramona
  • Beatrice Grimaldi, a Princess in Gossip Girl.
  • Beatrice Hotchkiss, in Nancy Drew Treasure in the Royal Tower, and Nancy Drew Legend of the Crystal Skull
  • Beatrice Tris Prior, the main character in the Divergent series of books and movies

See also

  • Princess Beatrice (disambiguation), name of several princesses
  • Saint Beatrice (disambiguation), name of several Christian saints
  • Beatrijs, a 13th-century Dutch poem about a nun with this name
  • All pages beginning with "Beatrice"

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