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Beck

#913 in 2025Boys' name

Stream

Beck has been given to 4,109 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #913 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 259 recorded.

Babies named Beck, 2025

1 in 12,800

Beck over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beck: meaning, origin, and history

Stream

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Beck means

Beck means “stream”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,983 boys were recorded with the name Beck between 1957 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 259 in 2025; its best national rank was #913 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,035 in 2020 to #913 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,232 in 2015 to #913 in 2025.

In the United States, 126 girls were recorded with the name Beck between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,765 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,689 in 2020 to #8,439 in 2025.

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.

How common is Beck?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,800
259 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,590
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#913
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Beck sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,873 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beck. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Becks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beck was born before 2015 — so the typical Beck is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,983
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,364).

Is Beck 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
+93
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+122
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+319
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (259)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#913
2025

Spellings of Beck

Beck is not the most common spelling — Jack is, with 61.2% against Beck's 0.32%.

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.

Where Beck is used

Across 2016–2025, Beck was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,299 boys, against 1 in 10,025 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

277 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,299
  2. 2Colorado1 in 3,448
  3. 3Idaho1 in 5,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 5,263
  5. 5Indiana1 in 5,556
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 7,143
  7. 7Kansas1 in 7,692
  8. 8Illinois1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Beck around the world

Where Beck 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
    1997–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Beck

People whose public names include Beck, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Beck in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Beck. Linked forms have their own page here.

Bek

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Beck by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#913
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 122
Best rank ever
#913
2025
Peak year
2025
259 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,983
Count in 2025
259

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,439
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,750
Best rank ever
#4,765
2023
Peak year
2023
28 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Beck

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

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Names with a curve like Beck

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Beck, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Beck

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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