Becca
Becca was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,079 among girls’ names; 3,347 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,270 Americans named Becca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Becca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Becca mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Becca is “a diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, from Hebrew.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Becca?
#4,079 among girls’ names, 2025
Becca fell from #2,560 in 2015 to #4,079 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.2 to 21.8 per million.
141 babies in 1993, the peak
Becca peaked in 1993, when 141 girls were given it, #1,227 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,079 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,650 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,193 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,319 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,302 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,786 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,655 | 38.7 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,164 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,928 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,765 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,560 | 39.2 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,437 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,600 | 38.8 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,835 | 34.6 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,512 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,942 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,465 | 41.9 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,420 | 41.8 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,330 | 42.7 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,289 | 43.7 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,342 | 41.1 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,425 | 38.1 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,927 | 51.4 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,385 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,046 | 45.5 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,120 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,667 | 55.8 |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,867 | 46.4 |
| 1997 | 109 | #1,495 | 62.6 |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,411 | 66.7 |
| 1995 | 104 | #1,504 | 59.1 |
| 1994 | 119 | #1,378 | 66.6 |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,227 | 77.9 |
| 1992 | 132 | #1,287 | 71.6 |
| 1991 | 120 | #1,354 | 64.0 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,949 | 36.9 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,252 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,501 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,135 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,359 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,643 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,877 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,177 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,790 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,786 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,328 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,004 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,788 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,964 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,101 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,381 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,050 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,125 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,458 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,515 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,319 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,449 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,801 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,498 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,415 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,273 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,035 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,037 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,282 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,613 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,708 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,111 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,930 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,224 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,691 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,085 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,702 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Becca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Becca has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Becca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Becca, and how old are they?
3,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,347 Americans ever recorded as Becca. The median Becca alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 6,067 people named Becca (6,045 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,021 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 86 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 271 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 961 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 697 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Becca born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,981 | 0.5× |
Where Becca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Becca is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1948 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Becca with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 93,459 babies since 1880, Becca is the second most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 71 babies (49%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Becca
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Becca and names like it
- Compare Becca and BeckyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBecca peaked in 1993.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Becca since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Becca: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Becca.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Becca alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.