Beckett

Where Beckett comes from

Beckett hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    Beckett Bould born
    British actor
  2. 1992
    First appearance
    #7,422 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1992
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2006
    Beckett Sennecke born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  5. 2025
    Peak, #141
    2,518 babies named Beckett — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Beckett Sennecke · Canadian ice hockey player, born 2006
  • Beckett Bould · British actor, 1880–1970

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.