How do you pronounce Beatrix?

Girl Names
1

[name]Bee[/name] - trix, or [name]Bee[/name] - ah - trix?

2

[name]BEE[/name]-uh-triks.

3

[name]Bee[/name]-uh-trix

4

[name]BEE[/name]-ah-trix

5

[name]Bee[/name]-ah-trix, although realistically I tend to say it like “bear-trix”, I’m an awful mumbler :stuck_out_tongue:

6

[name]Bee[/name]-Uh-[name]Trix[/name], just like [name]Beatrice[/name] but with the ‘[name]Trix[/name]’.

7

Dutch pronunciation is

[name]Bay[/name]-ah-trix

I like the name, but it’s so strongly associated with our queen, which makes it sound quite old and formal for me.

8

I don’t know if it is the French Canadian/[name]German[/name] influence but I say:

[name]Bay[/name]-a-trix

and for [name]Beatrice[/name] - [name]Bay[/name]-a-treese

Oddly, though, my daughter’s nickname is [name]Bea[/name], we say “[name]Bee[/name]” (her full name is not [name]Beatrice[/name]/[name]Beatrice[/name]). A friend of mine who’s daughter is half French and named [name]Beatrice[/name] ([name]Bay[/name]-a-treese) is called “[name]Bay[/name]-a”.

9

Huh. I’ve always been saying it [name]BEE[/name]-trix. I don’t know any in real life, but I was liking it together as a double name with [name]Billie[/name]: [name]Billie[/name] [name]BEE[/name]-trix.

10

[name]Bee[/name]-ah-trix for me, as well.

11

I say [name]Bee[/name]-uh-triks.

12

Usually [name]BEE[/name]-uh-trix, but I’ve heard it as [name]BAY[/name]-uh-trix as well.

13

[name]Bee[/name]-ah-trix…

14

I say [name]BEE[/name]-trix, but honestly I like [name]Bee[/name]-uh-trix or [name]Bay[/name]-uh-trix better. But if I saw one on an attendance sheet I’d say [name]BEE[/name]-trix. I also pronounce [name]Beatrice[/name] [name]Bee[/name]-tris.

15

[name]BEE[/name]-ah-trix

16

Yes, like [name]Beatrice[/name] with tricks, not triss.

17

Most English speakers would pronounce it like “[name]BEE[/name]-uh-triks”.

18

That’s weird, I’ve never heard it said with 2 syllables. Sounds very strange that way.

19

I know my great aunt said [name]Bee[/name]-tricks when she said [name]Beatrix[/name] [name]Potter[/name] (my earliest exposure to the name I suppose).

It’s interchangeable for me between that and [name]Bee[/name]-uh-tricks

20

bee-uh-trix. I’ve never heard it said bee-trix before.