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Becci

Girls' name

Diminutive of Rebecca

Becci has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Becci, 1981

1 in 692,000

Becci over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Becci: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Rebecca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Becci means

Becci is a diminutive of Rebecca.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Becci is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɛk.i/ for Becci.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Becci → Rebecca. The family’s meaning is “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”, recorded in English with the source elements Rivka.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 girls were recorded with the name Becci between 1955 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1960; its best national rank was #3,709 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Becci?

Becci had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 692,000
5 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 334,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
479,538 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Becci sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Becci. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beccis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Becci was born before 1964 — so the typical Becci is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Becci rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (12)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,709
1960

Spellings of Becci

Becci is not the most common spelling — Becky is, with 84.3% against Becci's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Becci around the world

Where Becci ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2001
    #2,023
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Becci by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,709
1960
Peak year
1960
12 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Becci

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BeckBeckleyBeckaBeckhamBeckleeBecklynnJacciBeccaNicciVicciBeckeyBeckettBecklynBeckiBecaRicciBeckieBeckahBecketteLacciStacciVincciBecky

Sibling names for Becci

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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