Beautiful first appears in the U.S. registration record in 1997. Its popularity climbed over the following decades. In 2008, 67 babies received the name (ranked #2724). Today it sits well outside the top 1,000 (around #3494), with roughly 45 babies named Beautiful each year. Beautiful's usage has held roughly steady recently. In total, around 1,087 babies have been registered with this name since 1880.