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Becka

Girls' name

Enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare, through Rebecca

Becka has been given to 338 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1992, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Becka, 2017

1 in 596,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Becka: meaning, origin, and history

Enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare, through Rebecca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Becka means

Becka belongs to the name family reached through Becka → Rebecca. Its meaning is “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”.

Origin, language, and formation

Becka is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 338 girls were recorded with the name Becka between 1968 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,868 in 1992.

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 Becka?

Becka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Becka 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Becka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beckas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Becka was born before 1996 — so the typical Becka is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
338
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Becka 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (27)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,868
1992

Spellings of Becka

Becka is not the most common spelling — Becky is, with 39.8% against Becka's 0.15%.

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.

Becka around the world

Where Becka 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.

  • Canada
    2012–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Becka 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,868
1992
Peak year
1992
27 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
338
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Becka

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

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Sibling names for Becka

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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