Beata

Beata
Pronunciation	"BAY-AH-TUH"
Gender	Feminine
Origin
Word/name	From Latin "beatus" "beatitude"
Meaning	Blessed
Region of origin	Old World/Western Europe
Other names
Related names	Beatrix, Beatrice

Beade redirects here: for details about the town in Galicia, Northwestern Spain, see Beade, Ourense.

For other uses, see Beata (disambiguation).

Beata or Beate is a woman's given name that comes from the Latin beatus or 'beatitude', meaning "happy" or "blessed". It can also be the short-form of Beatrix or Beatrice. Variations include Beáta, Bea, Beade and Beate.

This name is derived from the same Latin word as the concept of beatification, of major importance in the Roman Catholic religion. However, in modern usage, the name is not taken as having a special religious significance, nor is it restricted to people of Catholic background.

People named Beata include:

• Beate Bühler (born 1964), German retired volleyball player
• Beata Kaczmarska (born 1970), Polish race walker
• Beata Kitsikis (1907-1986), Greek feminist and communist fighter
• Beate Klarsfeld (born 1939), Nazi hunter
• Beata Mikołajczyk (born 1985), Polish sprint canoer and 2009 world champion
• Beata Pozniak (born 1960), Polish-American film director, painter and model
• Beata Rosenhane
• Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian born woman who drafted the article on male-female equality and women's civil rights in Japan's constitution, as mandated by the Potsdam Declaration
• Beate Schmidt (born 1966), German serial killer
• Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza (born 1974), Polish sprint canoer and 1999 world champion
• Beata Sabina Straas (died 1773), aka Madame Åberg, Swedish actress
• Beata Szydło (born 1963), Polish politician, Law and Justice 2015 candidate for prime minister
• Beata Tyszkiewicz (born 1938), Polish actress
• Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919-2001), German pilot and entrepreneur
• Beate Zschäpe (born 1975), alleged member of the German far-right terror group NSU