Bekah — girls' name
208 babies named Bekah in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Bekah was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Bekah in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bekah
The Social Security Administration has registered 208 babies named Bekah between 1976 and 2021, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bekah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bekah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 64 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Bekah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bekah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 208 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bekah at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bekah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1976
- Peak year (2004)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
208 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 13 births in a single year.
Bekah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 64 births that decade — 31% of Bekah's all-time total
Bekah decade highlights
- Peak decade 64 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Bekah's strongest decade
64 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1976–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.