Becket
#3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 41 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 589since 1969
Becket over time
Rank among boys' names. Becket has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,757 | 29 |
| 2024 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | #4,002 | 27 |
| 2022 | #3,053 | 40 |
| 2021 | #2,972 | 41 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #2,885 | 41 |
| 2015 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,792 | 27 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,102 | 18 |
| 2008 | #5,249 | 17 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
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| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Becket! It came in at #3,935, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1999, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Becket
- 485 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #3,757)
- 941 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #3,757)
- 422 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2016 at #2,885 (41 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 42,670 boys born in 2021 were named Becket (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,885 in 2016, was only 1 in 46,286 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 47.9% of all boys named Becket (282) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 108 | #5,102 (2009) | #7,277 |
| 2010s | 282 | #2,885 (2016) | #3,899 |
| 2020s | 193 | #2,972 (2021) | #3,626 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Becket in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 46,286 of them was named Becket, which outranked 79.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,838Yahia42
- #2,838Zacarias42
- #2,838Zacchaeus42
- #2,885Becket41
- #2,885Abimael41
- #2,885Anibal41
- #2,885Armand41
- #2,935Abdurrahman40
- #2,935Able40
- #2,935Adyn40
Tied with 49 names at #2,885; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.