Entry № 1303 · Dutch origin

Beatrijs Beatrijs — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-ah-trais /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Dutch
Meaning
"Flemish Cistercian mystic (Seven Manners of Love)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Dutch)

A name that means "flemish cistercian mystic (seven manners of love)".

Beatrijs is the Dutch form of Beatrice — from Latin beatus ("blessed"). Beatrijs of Nazareth (1200-1268) was the Flemish Cistercian nun and mystic — her Seven Manieren van Heilige Minne ("Seven Manners of Holy Love") is the earliest known prose work in the Dutch language. *Like Hadewijch, she developed the imagery of minne (mystical love)* that would shape Northern European spirituality.

Featured in modern anthologies of medieval Dutch mysticism.

Blessed. The Flemish Cistercian whose 'Seven Manners of Love' is the earliest Dutch prose.

The name in its native script.

Beatrijs
Transliteration
Beatrijs
Pronunciation
/ ˈbeɪ.ə.traɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Beatrijs stands.

Beatrijs does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Beatrijss before her.

Real people
Beatrijs of Nazareth
Flemish Cistercian mystic.
1200 – 1268
In fiction
Beatrijs
Anonymous medieval Dutch Beatrijs legend.
14th c.

Names connected to Beatrijs.

The number behind Beatrijs.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Beatrijs reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.