Beck

A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning stream or small brook.

Babies a year
124
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#913
new to the top 1000
UK popularity
#2133
11 babies

Beck by the numbers

In 2025, 11 babies in England and Wales were named Beck. In the US, 124 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 170 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

Names that come from Beck

Forms of Beck in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.

  • Beckettestream; a form of Beck or Beckett5 in the US (2017)
  • Beckmanstream dweller; a form of Beckman or Beck5 in the US (2017)

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Beck. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Breckfreckled, spotted80 in the US (2017)
  • Buckmale deer or buck53 in the US (2017)
  • Beckyto bind; a form of Rebecca42 in the US (2017)
  • Becksdweller by the streams; a form of Beck6 in the US (2017)
  • Bek7 in the US (2017)
  • Berk6 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean water

Like Beck, each of these has water in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Maxwellgreat spring; place name3,118 in the US (2017)
  • Riverflowing water; nature name3,114 in the US (2017)
  • Brooksof the small stream1,938 in the US (2017)
  • Beckettbee keeper or stream; a surname used as a given name1,763 in the US (2017)
  • Beckhamhomestead with a stream1,280 in the US (2017)
  • Wadeto go or ford across water899 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Beck

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