Becca

Where Becca comes from

The dictionaries list Becca as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, from Hebrew — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #4,651 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #1,228
    141 babies named Becca — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,379.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, from Hebrew.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Becca hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.