Meaning not yet researched.
Becky: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #102 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #102 in 1959; #3,992 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Becky in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,992 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #102.
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Becky: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 girls in 2025. Peak: #102 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 4,755 (1959).
In 2025, 36 US girls were named Becky, making it the 3,992nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 498 places from #4,490 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 31 girls named Becky in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #102, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,755. For comparison, it was #2,968 in 2015 and #216 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Becky in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 87,042 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 29,658 babies named Becky.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US girls were named Becky; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,646 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Beckie (2,851 babies since 1880) and Becki (2,510 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Beckey, Bekki and Beki are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Beckey (552), Bekki (164), Beki (35).
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 Becky in the open dataset we use.
Becky is listed as a nickname for Beck, Rebecca.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,490 | — | — |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,626 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,084 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,859 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,525 | — | — |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,872 | — | — |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1994 | 139 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1993 | 161 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1992 | 192 | #992 | — | — |
| 1991 | 205 | #934 | — | — |
| 1990 | 229 | #859 | — | — |
| 1989 | 261 | #753 | — | — |
| 1988 | 324 | #617 | — | — |
| 1987 | 377 | #534 | — | — |
| 1986 | 382 | #536 | — | — |
| 1985 | 515 | #427 | — | — |
| 1984 | 577 | #384 | — | — |
| 1983 | 689 | #332 | — | — |
| 1982 | 800 | #305 | — | — |
| 1981 | 993 | #250 | — | — |
| 1980 | 1,011 | #254 | 7 | #4,982 |
| 1979 | 907 | #270 | 6 | #5,420 |
| 1978 | 995 | #244 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,009 | #245 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,196 | #206 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,305 | #193 | 6 | #4,850 |
| 1974 | 1,497 | #177 | 5 | #5,286 |
| 1973 | 1,612 | #170 | 5 | #5,170 |
| 1972 | 1,787 | #165 | 10 | #3,177 |
| 1971 | 1,930 | #163 | 10 | #3,168 |
| 1970 | 2,071 | #161 | — | — |
| 1969 | 2,094 | #155 | 6 | #3,983 |
| 1968 | 2,055 | #161 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 1967 | 2,031 | #162 | 7 | #3,264 |
| 1966 | 2,297 | #153 | — | — |
| 1965 | 2,589 | #143 | 9 | #2,797 |
| 1964 | 3,103 | #131 | 7 | #3,310 |
| 1963 | 3,308 | #126 | 12 | #2,428 |
| 1962 | 3,704 | #122 | 11 | #2,517 |
| 1961 | 4,095 | #115 | — | — |
| 1960 | 4,325 | #111 | — | — |
| 1959 | 4,755 | #102 | — | — |
| 1958 | 4,361 | #111 | 11 | #2,519 |
| 1957 | 3,524 | #127 | 7 | #3,273 |
| 1956 | 2,688 | #144 | 5 | #3,988 |
| 1955 | 2,002 | #174 | 5 | #3,928 |
| 1954 | 1,849 | #179 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,626 | #189 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,537 | #193 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,259 | #217 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,236 | #216 | 5 | #3,729 |
| 1949 | 1,105 | #223 | 5 | #3,735 |
| 1948 | 1,200 | #210 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,298 | #205 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,038 | #224 | — | — |
| 1945 | 657 | #263 | — | — |
| 1944 | 592 | #283 | — | — |
| 1943 | 551 | #297 | — | — |
| 1942 | 512 | #305 | — | — |
| 1941 | 428 | #319 | — | — |
| 1940 | 346 | #348 | — | — |
| 1939 | 265 | #416 | — | — |
| 1938 | 178 | #499 | — | — |
| 1937 | 114 | #635 | — | — |
| 1936 | 118 | #604 | — | — |
| 1935 | 99 | #666 | — | — |
| 1934 | 67 | #831 | — | — |
| 1933 | 62 | #854 | — | — |
| 1932 | 56 | #944 | — | — |
| 1931 | 52 | #961 | — | — |
| 1930 | 47 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1929 | 47 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1928 | 42 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #951 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #906 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #938 | — | — |
| 1881 | 9 | #585 | — | — |
| 1880 | 8 | #632 | — | — |
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).