girls:
1.2k births since 1966
#4561 (20th percentile)
boys:
24.4k births since 1992
#736 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.6k births since 1966
#1579 (80th percentile)
The name Beckett is the #1,579 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,583 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 79.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #736 (84.0% percentile) for all time with 24,428 births since 1992. For girls, it ranks #4,561 (20.2% percentile) for all time with 1,155 births since 1966.
Beckett first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Beckett is available in 31 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Beckett has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.5% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1966 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (95.5% boys from 1992 to 2023).
For boys, Beckett reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 80.0% percentile (ranked #186) with 1,048 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,048 births per million (ranked 80.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Beckett is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #193 (78.9% percentile) with 1,018 births per million.
For girls, Beckett reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 12.9% percentile (ranked #835) with 71 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 71 births per million (ranked 12.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Beckett ranks #856 for girls (9.6% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 76.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beckett".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Beckett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Beckett is pronounced as BEH-kiht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEH-kuht, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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