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Beatrice is pronounced bay-ah-TREE-chay in Italian, which is much prettier than the English pronunciation.

Personal experiences with the name Beatrice: | Edit

my freshmen year in high school, my roommates name was beatrice! she was great! but after a while we hated each others guts but the following year (sophomore year) since we weren't rooming again we were best friends...even now going into our junior year in high school we are still best friends because we are roomed together :] she also hated being call bee-a-trice...she gets really mad...she prefers bee-trice almost like bee-rice (and we call her that sometimes.)

Nicknames for Beatrice: | Edit

Bea, Bebe, Tricia, Trixie, Bess, Tris, Bee, Bee-Bee, Bee-Rice
Italian Nickname: Bice (BEE-Chey).

Meanings and history of the name Beatrice: | Edit

it is a Latin word meaning joy

Famous real-life people named Beatrice: | Edit

Beatrice McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney of the Beatles and (famously) ex-wife Heather Mills
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857–1944)
Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Saxe-Coburg, and Gotha (1884–1966), whose nickname was Bee
Princess Beatrice of York (born 1988)
Beatrice "Bea" Arthur, actress (Maude, The Golden Girls)

Beatrice in song, story & screen: | Edit

Beatrice, soul guiding Dante out of Purgatory and through Heaven in Dante's "Divine Comedy".
Beatrice in Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing".
Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby from Beverly Cleary's childrens' book series.
Beatrice Baudelaire, a character in Lemony Snicket's childrens' book series.
Beatrice Denoument, another character in Lemony Snicket's series, named after the first.
Bea is Kate Winslet's daughter in the movie "Hideous Kinky", based in Morocco.
Beatrice, the poisinous woman from Hawthorne's "Rappacini's Daughter"
Beatrice "Beadie" Russell, Port Authority police officer on The Wire (played by Amy Ryan)
Beatrice "Tris" Prior, main character/heroine in Veronia Roth's "Divergent" series