Beka

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Beka has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2018, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Beka, 2024

1 in 557,000

Beka over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beka: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Beka means

Beka is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Beka is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Beka between 2009 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,689 in 2018.

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 Beka?

Beka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Beka 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bekas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beka was born before 2016 — so the typical Beka is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 78.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 52; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 78.8% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Beka 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2018 (10)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,689; 2018

Spellings of Beka

Beka is not the most common spelling — Ben is, with 35.0% against Beka's 0.02%.

Ben35.0%85,349
Beau26.9%65,592
Bert13.8%33,585
Luka11.9%28,959
Zeke3.4%8,371
Beck1.6%3,983
Bear1.4%3,356
Kekoa0.84%2,053

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.

Beka around the world

Where Beka 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
1984–1991
#669
in 1991

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

Beka by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,689; 2018
Peak year: 2018; 10 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 52
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Beka

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

Bekam Bek Bekim Bekham Emeka Tameka Bekett Chiemeka Nnaemeka Tomeka Eureka Temeka Olisaemeka Chukwuemeka

Sibling names for Beka

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

For a sister

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Aislinn Khaleesi Emberly Landry Avah

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Levon Merrick Mordechai Zaid Linus Joziah

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