Entry № 1414 · Creole origin

Beyoncé Beyoncé — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bee-YON-say /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Creole
Meaning
"Beyond others (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, most Grammy wins in history)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Creole)

A name that means "beyond others (beyoncé knowles-carter, most grammy wins in history)".

Beyoncé is from her mother Tina's maiden name Beyincé — a Louisiana Creole surname of uncertain origin (possibly French bien aimé, "well loved," or West African). Her 2018 Coachella headlining performance — "Beychella" — was the first by a Black woman in the festival's history.

Beyond others (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, most Grammy wins in history) — a Creole name.

The name in its native script.

Beyoncé
Transliteration
Beyoncé
Pronunciation
/ biːˈjɒn.seɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Beyoncé stands.

Beyoncé 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.

Beyoncés before her.

Real people
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
American singer; most Grammy wins ever.
born 1981
In fiction
Beyoncé
Voice of Nala in The Lion King.
2019

Names connected to Beyoncé.

The number behind Beyoncé.

3

The Communicator

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