Beckham
Beckham was given to 2,185 boys in 2025, #168 among boys’ names; 20,639 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,400 Americans named Beckham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Beckham came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1903 and returned in 2008.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beckham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Beckham?
#168 among boys’ names, 2025
Beckham rose from #359 in 2015 to #168 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.48 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,243 babies in 2024, the peak
Beckham peaked in 2024, when 2,243 babies were given it (2,184 boys, #168 among boys’ names). The 2,235 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,185 | #168 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,184 | #168 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 1,838 | #199 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,833 | #204 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,723 | #223 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,412 | #248 | 0.82 |
| 2019 | 1,364 | #266 | 0.76 |
| 2018 | 1,184 | #295 | 0.65 |
| 2017 | 1,271 | #285 | 0.69 |
| 2016 | 1,120 | #313 | 0.59 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 923 | #359 | 0.48 |
| 2014 | 575 | #490 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 504 | #528 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 492 | #530 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 360 | #651 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 303 | #749 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 254 | #843 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 231 | #900 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 173 | #1,074 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 131 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 93 | #1,523 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 65 | #1,878 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,787 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,420 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,736 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,812 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,772 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,402 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,222 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 10 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Beckham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,639 Americans recorded as Beckham, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 50 girls and 2,185 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Beckham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beckham, and how old are they?
20,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,639 Americans ever recorded as Beckham. The median Beckham alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 8,743 people named Beckham (117 women and girls, 8,626 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,495 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18,300 |
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 Beckham born?
The states with the most babies named Beckham are Texas, Florida and California, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 192 | #210 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 116 | #189 | 0.7× |
| California | 112 | #323 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 110 | #122 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 99 | #125 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 93 | #79 | 1.6× |
| Utah | 89 | #41 | 4.5× |
| Michigan | 89 | #105 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | #169 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 74 | #169 | 0.9× |
Where Beckham is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beckham is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 4.5 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 Beckham 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 22,112 babies since 1880, Beckham is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,235 of their 2,286 babies (98%), 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 Beckham
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 Beckham and names like it
- Compare Beckham and BeckamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBeckham peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beckham since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Beckham.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Beckham alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.