Becka
Becka was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 338 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Becka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Becka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Becka is “a diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Becka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,403, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1992, the peak
Becka peaked in 1992, when 27 girls were given it, #3,868 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #14,403 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,615 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,784 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,859 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,947 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,389 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,333 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,420 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,073 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,688 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #14,140 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,758 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,435 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,640 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,922 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,216 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,951 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,780 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,598 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,108 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,799 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,851 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,123 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,437 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,868 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,209 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,579 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,537 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,773 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,247 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,531 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,623 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,831 | 6.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,086 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Becka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Becka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Becka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Becka, and how old are they?
An estimated 331 Americans named Becka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 623 people named Becka (619 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 332 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 97,017 babies since 1880, Becka is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 71 babies recorded by SSA was a Becka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Becka
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 Becka and names like it
- Compare Becka and BeckyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sBecka peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Becka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Becka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.