Becky

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Becky is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.

rarermore common
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.3K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 3.3K
  • CACanada1 in 3.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈68K ●

across 5 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
499 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.9K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

BeckyLatin · English●1.1M records
בקיHebrew · Hebrew●3.5K records
เบกกThai · Thai●1 records

Locally spelled בקי in IL Israel, TR Türkiye, IR Iran.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Becky is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#44668,184906K rec.1 in 4.9K68KBecky499
GB United Kingdom#42162,10457K rec.—6Becky214
CA Canada#48123,16922K rec.—1Becky160
AU Australia#69916,82916K rec.—3Becky145
IT Italy#8725,6055.7K rec.—1Becky30
NG Nigeria—5,0316.3K rec.—listedBecky68
DE Germany—4,9504.9K rec.—1Becky87
SG Singapore#1953,2393.2K rec.——Becky40
IL Israel—2,7914.8K rec.—329בקי39
RU Russia—2,5832.6K rec.——Becky24
PH Philippines—2,2912.2K rec.——Becky35
EG Egypt—1,4971.4K rec.——Becky26

Roughly 68K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 4.9K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.1M80%
  • 73K5%
  • Spanish51K4%
  • German16K1%
  • French12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,085,92480%
73,1335%
Spanish50,6644%
German15,9611%
French11,9271%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Becky is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name86K records spelled Becky12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Mexico, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Beçky, Bêcky, Bëčķý, Bëcky, Bëčký

  • Chinese given name7.8K records spelled Becky3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Taiwan, United Kingdom, China

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Bëĉkÿ

  • Polish given name7.4K records spelled Becky26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Beckie, Бекки, Bekki, Беккі, Bečky

  • Hungarian given name2.8K records spelled Becky4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Béçky

  • Turkish given name1.8K records spelled Becky4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Hong Kong

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Béçky

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Becky is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., englische Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English: pet form of REBECCA . It has occasionally been used as an independent given name, and was especially popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. The modern short form Becca is also occasionally used, and the form Beca is well established in Wales.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.8K · 1959

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Becky in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18808
18819
18846
18855
18867
18877
18886
18896
18905
18925
18938
18955
18976
18986
19006
19017
19046
19068
19075
190810
19097
19107
19117
191211
191423
191523
191618
191730
191820
191926
192024
192139
192237
192349
192437
192545
192628
192744
192842
192947
193047
193152
193256
193362
193467
193599
1936118
1937114
1938178
1939265
1940346
1941428
1942512
1943551
1944592
1945657
19461,038
19471,298
19481,200
19491,105
19501,236
19511,259
19521,537
19531,626
19541,849
19552,002
19562,688
19573,524
19584,361
19594,755
19604,325
19614,095
19623,704
19633,308
19643,103
19652,589
19662,297
19672,031
19682,055
19692,094
19702,071
19711,930
19721,787
19731,612
19741,497
19751,305
19761,196
19771,009
1978995
1979907
19801,011
1981993
1982800
1983689
1984577
1985515
1986382
1987377
1988324
1989261
1990229
1991205
1992192
1993161
1994139
1995108
1996117
1997129
199880
199989
200081
200166
200266
200353
200456
200557
200653
200768
200856
200959
201045
201145
201241
201339
201454
201558
201645
201743
201837
201960
202041
202139
202226
202338
202431
202536

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 136 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Becky Ann Baker, b. 1953Becky Johnston, b. 1955Becky Wahlstrom, b. 1975Becky Hammon, b. 1977Becky Cloonan, b. 1980Becky Albertalli, b. 1982Becky Chambers, b. 1985Becky Sauerbrunn, b. 1985Becky Hill, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 49 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Becky
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202068K#746
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000148#110,523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010141#122,314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020113#147,221
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—76#10,214
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202072#746
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—54#11,312
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202050—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202536—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#11,892
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#12,819
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—35#10,485

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 431 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Becky?
We estimate roughly 68 thousand people bear Becky (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Becky have the most bearers?
We estimate about 68 thousand people bear Becky in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled becky.
How common is Becky compared with other names?
In the United States, Becky is the 446th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Becky a male or female name?
Becky is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Becky mean?
Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Becky” — the 446th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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