Beck
Beck was given to 259 boys in 2025, #913 among boys’ names; 4,109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,060 Americans named Beck and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beck by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Beck?
#913 among boys’ names, 2025
Beck rose from #1,232 in 2015 to #913 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.15 per 1,000.
271 babies in 2025, the peak
Beck peaked in 2025, when 271 babies were given it (259 boys, #913 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 223 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 259 | #913 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 223 | #1,006 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 211 | #1,035 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,015 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 199 | #1,071 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,035 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 158 | #1,209 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,490 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,386 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,137 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 148 | #1,232 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,446 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,377 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,184 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 139 | #1,257 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,226 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 135 | #1,286 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,311 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 131 | #1,273 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,292 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 55 | #1,995 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 64 | #1,761 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,608 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 50 | #1,932 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,312 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,451 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,024 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,530 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,819 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,500 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,683 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,677 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,742 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,890 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,026 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Beck a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,109 Americans recorded as Beck, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 girls and 259 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Beck: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beck, and how old are they?
4,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,109 Americans ever recorded as Beck. The median Beck alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 3,219 people named Beck (263 women and girls, 2,956 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,712 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Beck rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 119 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,370 |
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 Beck born?
The states with the most babies named Beck are Texas, California and Colorado, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #978 | 0.9× |
| California | 16 | #1,204 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 16 | #387 | 1.8× |
| Utah | 13 | #353 | 4.8× |
| Illinois | 13 | #685 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 9 | #669 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #859 | 0.5× |
| New York | 9 | #1,218 | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #591 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,366 | 0.4× |
Where Beck is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beck is most over-represented in Utah: since 1957 it was given 4.8 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 boys’ 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 Beck with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Beck
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 Beck and names like it
- Compare Beck and XavienBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBeck peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beck since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Beck.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Beck alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.