girls:
86.8k births since 1880
#404 (93rd percentile)
boys:
144 births since 1949
#4442 (3rd percentile)
overall:
87k births since 1880
#746 (90th percentile)
The name Becky is the #746 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 86,974 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #404 (92.9% percentile) for all time with 86,830 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,442 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 144 births since 1949.
Becky has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1949 for boys). Birth data for Becky is available in 134 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (134 years for girls and 20 years for boys). 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 Becky has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Becky reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 86.8% percentile (ranked #102) with 2,287 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 2,287 births per million (ranked 86.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Becky ranks #914 for girls (3.5% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Becky reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #640) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Becky".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Becky. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Becky is pronounced as BEH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 K IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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