Beck
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #913 for boys in 2025, 259 births
Given to boys 96.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 259 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,983since 1957
Beck over time
Rank among boys' names. Beck has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #913 | 259 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #1,005 | 223 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | #1,034 | 211 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #1,015 | 219 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #1,071 | 199 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | #1,035 | 196 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,209 | 158 |
| 2018 | — | #1,489 | 116 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,384 | 127 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,134 | 170 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,231 | 148 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,396 | 121 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,444 | 114 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,183 | 149 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,256 | 139 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,226 | 146 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,284 | 135 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,311 | 131 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,273 | 131 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,201 | 132 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,292 | 115 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,591 | 79 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,998 | 55 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,763 | 64 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,609 | 73 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,932 | 50 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,312 | 38 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,449 | 33 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Beck! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Beck is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#394 · 1 in 1,580
- Utah#421 · 1 in 2,032
- Oklahoma#602 · 1 in 3,223
- Colorado#758 · 1 in 5,290
- Arizona#774 · 1 in 5,771
Best ever in a state: #221 in Utah, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #394 | 5 | 1 in 1,580 |
| Utah | #421 | 10 | 1 in 2,032 |
| Oklahoma | #602 | 6 | 1 in 3,223 |
| Colorado | #758 | 5 | 1 in 5,290 |
| Arizona | #774 | 6 | 1 in 5,771 |
| Indiana | #819 | 6 | 1 in 5,742 |
| North Carolina | #1,140 | 5 | 1 in 10,265 |
| Ohio | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 11,672 |
| Texas | #1,275 | 13 | 1 in 13,551 |
| California | #1,434 | 12 | 1 in 17,976 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Beck
- 92 spots since 2024 (#1,005 → #913)
- 122 spots since 2020 (#1,035 → #913)
- 318 spots since 2015 (#1,231 → #913)
- Biggest jump: 92 spots in 2025 (#1,005 → #913)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2025 at #913 (259 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,595 boys born in 2025 were named Beck (0.02%)
- 34.2% of all boys named Beck (1,364) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 50 | #3,731 (1987) | #5,011 |
| 1990s | 196 | #1,932 (1999) | #4,530 |
| 2000s | 1,061 | #1,201 (2005) | #1,455 |
| 2010s | 1,364 | #1,134 (2016) | #1,310 |
| 2020s | 1,307 | #913 (2025) | #1,012 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Beck in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,574 of them was named Beck, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,378Oskar128
- #1,378Roan128
- #1,378Zephyr128
- #1,384Beck127
- #1,384Atharv127
- #1,384Beaux127
- #1,384Corbyn127
- #1,393Aven126
- #1,393Avion126
- #1,393Johnpaul126
Tied with 8 names at #1,384; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.