Becca
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 141 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,347since 1948
Becca over time
Rank among girls' names. Becca has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 |
| 2024 | #3,639 | 42 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 |
| 2019 | #2,651 | 65 |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 |
| 2017 | #2,925 | 56 |
| 2016 | #2,761 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #3,425 | 46 |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #2,511 | 72 |
| 2010 | #2,938 | 58 |
| 2009 | #2,465 | 77 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 |
| 2006 | #2,287 | 83 |
| 2005 | #2,345 | 76 |
| 2004 | #2,424 | 70 |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 |
| 2002 | #2,379 | 67 |
| 2001 | #2,048 | 82 |
| 2000 | #2,122 | 76 |
| 1999 | #1,667 | 99 |
| 1998 | #1,867 | 82 |
| 1997 | #1,496 | 109 |
| 1996 | #1,412 | 117 |
| 1995 | #1,508 | 104 |
| 1994 | #1,380 | 119 |
| 1993 | #1,228 | 141 |
| 1992 | #1,290 | 132 |
| 1991 | #1,358 | 120 |
| 1990 | #1,952 | 70 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,688 | 12 |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Becca! It came in at #4,651, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1952, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Becca is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#344 · 1 in 1,960
- Minnesota#567 · 1 in 4,162
- Indiana#714 · 1 in 5,466
- Pennsylvania#716 · 1 in 5,826
- Ohio#952 · 1 in 8,834
Best ever in a state: #299 in Nebraska, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #344 | 7 | 1 in 1,960 |
| Minnesota | #567 | 6 | 1 in 4,162 |
| Indiana | #714 | 6 | 1 in 5,466 |
| Pennsylvania | #716 | 10 | 1 in 5,826 |
| Ohio | #952 | 7 | 1 in 8,834 |
| Illinois | #1,034 | 8 | 1 in 8,740 |
| Texas | #2,030 | 6 | 1 in 23,315 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Becca
- 428 spots since 2024 (#3,639 → #4,067)
- 1,288 spots since 2020 (#2,779 → #4,067)
- 1,512 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #4,067)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1993 at #1,228 (141 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,830 girls born in 1993 were named Becca (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 45,922 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.7% of all girls named Becca (1,093) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #4,651 (1948) | #4,651 |
| 1950s | 44 | #3,104 (1959) | #4,378 |
| 1960s | 121 | #3,264 (1965) | #3,894 |
| 1970s | 199 | #2,451 (1972) | #3,561 |
| 1980s | 206 | #2,774 (1981) | #4,074 |
| 1990s | 1,093 | #1,228 (1993) | #1,516 |
| 2000s | 786 | #1,925 (2003) | #2,274 |
| 2010s | 609 | #2,511 (2011) | #2,835 |
| 2020s | 283 | #2,779 (2020) | #3,379 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Becca in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 15,970 of them was named Becca, which outranked 90.7% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,490Kim110
- #1,490Marguerite110
- #1,490Niya110
- #1,496Becca109
- #1,496Adina109
- #1,496Jaimee109
- #1,496Jordin109
- #1,504Ceara108
- #1,504Danna108
- #1,504Deonna108
Tied with 7 names at #1,496; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.