Meaning not yet researched.
Beckham: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,185 in 2025. Its best rank was #168 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 98% of babies named Beckham in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#168 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Beckham: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,185 boys in 2025. Peak: #168 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,185 (2025).
In 2025, 2,185 US boys were named Beckham, making it the 168th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 1 more than the 2,184 boys named Beckham in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #168, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,185. For comparison, it was #359 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Beckham in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 6 babies. In all, 20,639 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,382 babies named Beckham.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 16,114 US boys were named Beckham; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 782 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Beckham ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #41 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 10 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Beckhem, Bekham and Beckhym are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Beckhem (126), Bekham (23), Beckhym (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Beckham in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 89 | #41 | #49 |
| North Dakota | 18 | #54 | — |
| Mississippi | 36 | #65 | #310 |
| Indiana | 93 | #79 | #302 |
| Alabama | 61 | #81 | #299 |
| West Virginia | 21 | #86 | — |
| Kentucky | 56 | #89 | #255 |
| Idaho | 26 | #90 | #90 |
| Louisiana | 53 | #92 | #243 |
| Iowa | 37 | #99 | #237 |
| Michigan | 89 | #105 | #313 |
| South Dakota | 12 | #106 | #149 |
| Arkansas | 30 | #113 | #226 |
| Oklahoma | 40 | #116 | #198 |
| Ohio | 110 | #122 | #336 |
| Nebraska | 21 | #122 | #292 |
| Kansas | 31 | #125 | #226 |
| North Carolina | 99 | #125 | #378 |
| Missouri | 55 | #129 | #237 |
| Tennessee | 71 | #134 | #344 |
| Wisconsin | 43 | #147 | #250 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #151 | #310 |
| Virginia | 57 | #156 | #797 |
| Arizona | 54 | #166 | #285 |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | #169 | #457 |
| Georgia | 74 | #169 | #401 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #171 | — |
| Oregon | 24 | #171 | #380 |
| Maine | 7 | #174 | — |
| Minnesota | 35 | #187 | #240 |
| Florida | 116 | #189 | #508 |
| Illinois | 61 | #193 | #403 |
| Colorado | 32 | #203 | #322 |
| Massachusetts | 29 | #208 | #727 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #210 | — |
| Texas | 187 | #210 | #371 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #215 | — |
| Maryland | 23 | #244 | #713 |
| Washington | 30 | #253 | #467 |
| New Jersey | 30 | #295 | #724 |
| California | 112 | #323 | #628 |
| Nevada | 9 | #326 | #276 |
| New York | 48 | #368 | #1,013 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,172 | 2,185 | #168 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,823 | 2,184 | #168 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,769 | 1,838 | #199 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,927 | 1,833 | #204 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,423 | 1,723 | #223 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,890 | 1,412 | #248 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,463 | 1,364 | #266 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,817 | 1,184 | #295 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,854 | 1,271 | #285 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,512 | 1,120 | #313 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,333 | 923 | #359 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,632 | 575 | #490 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,902 | 504 | #528 |
| 2012 | — | — | 492 | #530 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,165 | 360 | #651 |
| 2010 | — | — | 303 | #749 |
| 2009 | — | — | 254 | #843 |
| 2008 | — | — | 231 | #900 |
| 2007 | — | — | 173 | #1,074 |
| 2006 | — | — | 131 | #1,274 |
| 2005 | — | — | 93 | #1,525 |
| 2004 | — | — | 65 | #1,882 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,791 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,427 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #10,744 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #10,536 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,814 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,774 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,404 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,386 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,249 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,223 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #738 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,019 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).