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Becca vs Beckey

American parents have registered 3,347 Beccas since 1880, against 552 Beckeys. Becca is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Becca against Beckey, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Becca Beckey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Becca for 56 years and Beckey for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Becca Beckey
Total US births 3,347552
Most in one year 14129
Babies in 2025 35under 5
Estimated living today 3,300460
Median age today 2563
Peak year 19931962
Best rank 1,228th girls2,210th girls
Rank in 2025 4,067thunranked
First recorded 19481937
Girls / boys 3,347 / 0552 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Beckeys alive today are over 63; half the Beccas are over 25. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Becca and Beckey.