Beki

Girls' name

Enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare, through Becky

Beki has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1959, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Beki, 1963

1 in 792,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Beki: meaning, origin, and history

Enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare, through Becky

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Beki means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Beki is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Becky and Rebecca.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Beki between 1953 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1959; its best national rank was #3,840 in 1959.

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.

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How common is Beki?

Beki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963
1 in 792,000
5 of 3,958,455 births
Among girls only
1 in 385,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1963
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Beki 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 1963 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 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bekis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beki was born before 1959 — so the typical Beki is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
71.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
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1950s — 71.4% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Beki 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 1959 (11)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,840
1959

Spellings of Beki

Beki is not the most common spelling — Beth is, with 32.0% against Beki's <0.01%.

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.

Beki around the world

Where Beki 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
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Beki 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
#3,840
1959
Peak year
1959
11 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Beki

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

Sibling names for Beki

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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