Beckett
Beckett was given to 2,518 boys in 2025, #141 among boys’ names; 30,530 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,300 Americans named Beckett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beckett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Beckett?
#141 among boys’ names, 2025
Beckett rose from #218 in 2015 to #141 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 1.0 to 1.5 per 1,000.
2,625 babies in 2025, the peak
Beckett peaked in 2025, when 2,625 babies were given it (2,518 boys, #141 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 2,196 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,518 | #141 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 2,196 | #166 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 1,873 | #196 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,963 | #195 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 1,923 | #198 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 1,810 | #210 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,772 | #215 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,653 | #230 | 0.91 |
| 2017 | 1,687 | #227 | 0.91 |
| 2016 | 1,839 | #214 | 1.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,822 | #218 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,525 | #245 | 0.79 |
| 2013 | 1,244 | #280 | 0.66 |
| 2012 | 1,042 | #314 | 0.55 |
| 2011 | 937 | #330 | 0.49 |
| 2010 | 860 | #356 | 0.45 |
| 2009 | 713 | #414 | 0.36 |
| 2008 | 577 | #481 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 361 | #665 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 281 | #753 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,122 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,161 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,813 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,915 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,981 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,622 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,499 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,983 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,503 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Beckett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 30,530 Americans recorded as Beckett, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 107 girls and 2,518 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Beckett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beckett, and how old are they?
30,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 30,530 Americans ever recorded as Beckett. The median Beckett alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 17,466 people named Beckett (771 women and girls, 16,695 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,922 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 24,900 |
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 Beckett born?
The states with the most babies named Beckett are Texas, Ohio and Tennessee, with 17% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 180 | #232 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 141 | #90 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 105 | #79 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 103 | #230 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 101 | #131 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 100 | #93 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 90 | #84 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 90 | #138 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 88 | #71 | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 84 | #74 | 1.9× |
Where Beckett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beckett is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1966 it was given 2.4 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 Beckett 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 31,119 babies since 1880, Beckett is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,625 of their 2,654 babies (99%), again the 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 Beckett
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 Beckett and names like it
- Compare Beckett and BecketBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBeckett peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beckett since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Beckett.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Beckett alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.