Becky
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɛki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Becky is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.7K
- CACanada≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 553 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
68,256 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Becky counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #435 | 68,256 | 1 in 4.9K | 68K | Becky | 553 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Becky | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | #433 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 6 | Becky | 281 |
| CA Canada | #433 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 1 | Becky | 209 |
| IT Italy | #884 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 1 | Becky | 30 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Becky | 9 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Becky | 12 |
| SG Singapore | #285 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Becky | 42 |
68,256 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the wgnd-ng-names register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Becky is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., englische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
English: pet form of REBECCA . It has occasionally been used as an independent given name, and was especially popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. The modern short form Becca is also occasionally used, and the form Beca is well established in Wales.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Becky Ann Bakerb. 1953USAmerican actress
- Becky Johnstonb. 1955USscreenwriter
- Becky Wahlstromb. 1975USAmerican actress
- Becky Hammonb. 1977USAmerican-Russian basketball player and coach
- Becky Cloonanb. 1980USwriter, artist
- Becky Albertallib. 1982USAmerican author of young adult fiction
- Becky Chambersb. 1985USAmerican author
- Becky Sauerbrunnb. 1985USAmerican soccer player
- Becky Hillb. 1994GBBritish singer (born 1994)
- Becky Yamamotoactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Becky mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Becky a male or female name?
- Becky is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Becky?
- In the etymology graph, Rebeca, Rebekah and Reba are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Rebecca.
- In which country does Becky have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Becky, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled becky.
- How common is the name Becky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,256 people named Becky in 2020, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Becky compared with other names?
- In the United States, Becky is the 435th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Becky?
- A machine transcription gives /bɛki/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Becky?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beckyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Becky” — the 435th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.