Beyonce as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Beyonce

What is the meaning of the name Beyonce ?

The baby name Beyonce is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced bee-YON-say.

Beyonce is African American, French in Origin.

Beyonce is an unaccented form of Beyoncé, a modern given name transferred from Tina Knowles’s maternal surname. The family forms include Beyincé, Buyince, and Boyance, with Boyancé often treated as the older French-looking form in Louisiana records. Its root is best understood as a French Louisiana Creole surname rather than a transparent French vocabulary word; no secure literal sense is established. The final -é reflects French orthography, though the spelling Beyonce arose through American civil-record practice.

As a forename, Beyoncé entered public notice through Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, born in Houston in 1981 and named for her mother’s maiden name. Tina Knowles has described the surname spellings in her Black Louisiana Creole family as products of inconsistent birth documentation, giving the name an African American genealogical context as well as a Creole one. U.S. baby-name use rose briefly after Destiny’s Child, peaking in 2001, then receded as the name became closely identified with the singer.