From the script:
From an interview with Uma Thurman:
Why do they bleep your name?
That one eludes me. You'll find out her name. You will definitely find out her name, I can tell you right now, but that'd ruin it.
From an interview with Vivica A. Fox:
What name do you and Uma say when they bleep it out?
Beatrix. Her name is Beatrix. It is weird right? Even when I saw the screening of it the other day I thought, “Are people going to get that?” You never hear her name. She’s just The Bride. Whenever I go, “Sweetie this is an old friend of mommy’s, Beatrix, Beatrix, this is my daughter,” it’s bleeps. And she goes, “Hi honey, my name is…” and it bleeps. See, you’ve got to go see it again.
Why does he do that?
Because he wants you to come back and see it again and figure out what the hell her name is. Just to add little things. Just a quirk.
There were several hints about the name, giving people the opportunity to figure it out before it was eventually revealed in Volume 2.
For example, when she buys a plane ticket to Japan her name is visible on the boarding pass:
Where did the name Beatrix Kiddo come from?
From an interview with Quentin Tarantino:
Uma came up with the name Beatrix -- she worked for somebody with that name. And I came up with Kiddo. That's what I call women -- when I really like a girl, I call her "kiddo".
Speculation:
Quentin Tarantino is a known fan of Jean-Luc Godard (his production company A Band Apart was named after Godard's movie Bande à part).
In Godard's movie Made in the U.S.A. there is a running gag:
Godard censors Richard’s second name with all kinds of sounds possible.
So maybe this was Tarantino's inspiration.
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