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Becker

#4,150 in 2025Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Becker has been given to 527 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,150 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Becker, 2025

1 in 133,000

Becker over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Becker: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Becker means

Becker is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Becker is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Becker is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Becker is pronounced /ˈbɛkɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 527 boys were recorded with the name Becker between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,538 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,437 in 2020 to #4,150 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,993 in 2015 to #4,150 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Becker?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,150
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Becker 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Becker. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Beckers were born

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

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
527
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (227).

Is Becker 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
+302
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+287
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.6%
Peak was 2018 (31)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,538
2018

Spellings of Becker

Becker is not the most common spelling — Tucker is, with 46.0% against Becker's 0.44%.

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 Becker is used

Across 1910–2025, Becker was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 639,503 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Becker has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Becker around the world

Where Becker 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Becker by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,150
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 287
Best rank ever
#3,538
2018
Peak year
2018
31 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
527
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Becker

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

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Sibling names for Becker

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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