Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Becky

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Becky
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.3% from peak

Peak era

1959

Peak rank proxy

4,755

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1880Peak 19592024

Peak year

1959

Decline from peak

99.3%

2024

All-time

86,865

Becky once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1959, when 4,755 girls were named Becky.

In 2024, only 31 girls were given the name.

Down 99.3% from its peak.

All told, about 86,865 Americans have been named Becky and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.3% from peak

19594,755 girls named Becky

202431 girls named Becky

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