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Beckem vs Beckett

American parents have registered 30,530 Becketts since 1880, against 272 Beckems. Beckett is still ahead, with 2,625 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Beckem against Beckett, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Beckem Beckett

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

Beckett has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Beckem had 17 and Beckett had 584.

Side by side

  Beckem Beckett
Total US births 27230,530
Most in one year 212,625
Babies in 2025 142,625
Estimated living today 27030,000
Median age today 87
Peak year 20132025
Best rank 4,463rd boys141st boys
Rank in 2025 6,143rd141st
First recorded 20081966
Girls / boys 0 / 2721,374 / 29,156

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.

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