Beecher
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Beecher has been given to 1,019 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1921, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Beecher, 2022
1 in 677,000
Beecher over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Beecher?
Beecher had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Beecher sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beecher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Beechers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Beecher was born before 1929 — so the typical Beecher is around 96 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 24.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 188
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (251).
Is Beecher 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 1921 (36)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Beecher
Beecher is the most-used spelling, taking 65.9% of the 1,546 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Beecher65.9%1,019
- Becker34.1%527
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 Beecher is used
Across 1910–2025, Beecher was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 80,353 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Beecher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Beecher around the world
Where Beecher 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 Australia1991–1991#481in 1991
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Beecher by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Beecher
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Beecher
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.