Beckie
Beckie was last recorded in 2014, when 7 babies were given it; 2,851 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Beckie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 56 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Beckie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Beckie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Beckie is “a diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky.”
Variant of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Beckie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,286, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1959, the peak
Beckie peaked in 1959, when 128 girls were given it, #920 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #13,286 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,245 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,011 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,668 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,727 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,512 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,413 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,193 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,167 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,835 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 9 | #7,177 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,706 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,739 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,492 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,905 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,617 | 21.0 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,872 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,865 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,944 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,489 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,417 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,321 | 24.0 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,217 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,886 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,804 | 30.9 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,596 | 35.5 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,527 | 36.6 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,836 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,474 | 36.0 |
| 1967 | 66 | #1,348 | 40.0 |
| 1966 | 75 | #1,241 | 44.3 |
| 1965 | 81 | #1,194 | 45.9 |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,125 | 50.1 |
| 1963 | 79 | #1,233 | 41.0 |
| 1962 | 83 | #1,212 | 42.2 |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,101 | 49.0 |
| 1960 | 121 | #971 | 59.8 |
| 1959 | 128 | #920 | 63.3 |
| 1958 | 121 | #936 | 60.2 |
| 1957 | 124 | #918 | 60.6 |
| 1956 | 101 | #1,015 | 50.3 |
| 1955 | 87 | #1,081 | 44.5 |
| 1954 | 91 | #1,028 | 46.9 |
| 1953 | 70 | #1,154 | 37.2 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,333 | 28.0 |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,241 | 31.1 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,526 | 21.6 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,335 | 27.5 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,439 | 24.1 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,461 | 23.1 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,377 | 25.5 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,312 | 28.3 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,033 | 13.6 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,905 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,707 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,027 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,210 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,941 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,749 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,843 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,749 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,477 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,785 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,599 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,894 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,416 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,349 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,909 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,136 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,684 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,389 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,175 | 8.3 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,915 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,026 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,297 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,710 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,143 | 14.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,715 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,675 | 6.6 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,978 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,165 | 15.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,750 | 20.3 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,619 | 22.9 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,745 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,412 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,730 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,570 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,432 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,059 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,142 | 35.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,460 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,180 | 33.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,122 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,060 | 37.6 |
| 1882 | 8 | #681 | 74.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Beckie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Beckie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Beckie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Beckie, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 2,851 Americans ever recorded as Beckie. The median Beckie alive today is 64 years old; half are between 56 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 1,978 people named Beckie (1,975 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,286 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 83 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,210 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 665 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 166 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
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 Beckie born?
The states with the most babies named Beckie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 205 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 190 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 68 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 48 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 31 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Beckie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Beckie is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 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 Beckie 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 93,579 babies since 1880, Beckie is the second most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Beckie (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 Beckie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Pennie | 5,814 |
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 Beckie and names like it
- Compare Beckie and BeckyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBeckie peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Beckie since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Beckie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Beckie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.