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Bekki

Girls' name

Diminutive of Rebecca

Bekki has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1954. 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 1967, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Bekki, 1988

1 in 616,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bekki: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Rebecca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bekki means

Bekki is a diminutive of Rebecca.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bekki is used in English (Modern).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Bekki → Rebecca. The family’s meaning is “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”, recorded in English with the source elements Rivka.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 girls were recorded with the name Bekki between 1954 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1967; its best national rank was #3,500 in 1967.

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 Bekki?

Bekki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,773 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bekki 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 1988 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 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bekki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bekkis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bekki was born before 1971 — so the typical Bekki is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Bekki 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 1967 (14)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,500
1967

Spellings of Bekki

Bekki is not the most common spelling — Becky is, with 58.3% against Bekki's 0.11%.

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.

Bekki around the world

Where Bekki 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
    1999–2003
    #4,373
    in 2003
  • Scotland
    1996–2003
    #667
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1987–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bekki 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
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Best rank ever
#3,500
1967
Peak year
1967
14 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bekki

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

BekahBekkaJakkiBekiVickkiTikkiNickkiRikkiMikkiNekkiRykkiVikkiOnekkiLanikkiMarkkiInikkiRickkiNikki

Sibling names for Bekki

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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