Becca
Feminine
Becca is the back half of Rebecca, and the Hebrew name it comes from has resisted explanation for as long as anyone has tried.
How old is the name Becca?
Becca first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Becca alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 3,300 people named Becca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Becca most popular?
Becca peaked in 1993, reaching #1228 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 2,839 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rivkah to Becca
The story of Becca
Rebecca is the woman at the well who waters the camels, and later the one who arranges for her younger son to receive the blessing intended for the elder — an unusually decisive figure in a book that does not give many women that much agency. English Protestants took the name after the Reformation. Becca came off the back of it and has been registered under its own name in American records since the 1970s.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Hebrew Rivkah has no settled derivation. Readings offered include a noose or tie, a well-fed animal, and a connection to a word for binding or joining. None is established, and the popular gloss captivating is a later gloss on the tying reading rather than a translation.
How the name formed
- Rivkah
- Rebecca
- Becca
Related forms: Rebecca · Rivkah · Bekah
Pronouncing Becca
BEK-ah
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Becca
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1948
- Most girls named
- 1993141 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1228reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%35 in 2025, from 42
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Becca in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rebecca in English — related form
- Rivkah in Hebrew — related form
- Bekah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Indiana.
Beccas among us
people named Becca are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Becca
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Allen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Becca's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Allen climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Allen's path sketches the road Becca is walking now.
Becca sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Becca is headed
Becca should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Becca beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Becca in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Warm and immediately friendly, and understood by everyone.
- Rebecca stands behind it as a fuller formal option.
- Five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
- Rebecca's own meaning is genuinely unknown despite the name's age.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Beccas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Becca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Becca in 2025?
- Becca ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Becca?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Becca — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Becca with classmates?
- Becca will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Becca
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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