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Becket

Becket is a boy's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 2,885th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,757th. About 580 Beckets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Becket

By the numbers

Total US births
589
Estimated living today
580
Median age today
9
Peak year
2016
Best rank
2,885th
Rank in 2025
3,757th
First recorded
1969

How old the living Beckets are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 589 babies given the name since 1969, about 580 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Becket is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular boys’ names the year Becket peaked:

All the names of 2016

Related names

Becket against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.