Primarily a boy's name · 95% boys
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Beckett yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Beckett reached 2,186 births and rank 166 in 2024, both bests, on 43% growth over ten years — modest against everything else here, where several names have tripled. Recorded from 1992, 27,893 births in total, no origin listed and no namesakes at all. Samuel Beckett is the association most people would name and is absent from the file, which is consistent: these lists index people whose given name matches, not people whose surname supplied the fashion. That is the whole story of this cohort. Beckett, Sutton and Beckham are all surnames repurposed as first names, and the literary or athletic figures behind them never appear in the data precisely because they carried them the other way round.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #7,510 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,466 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,038 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,989 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,506 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,494 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,627 |
| 2001 | 54 | #1,985 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,919 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,816 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,163 |
| 2005 | 146 | #1,122 |
| 2006 | 281 | #753 |
| 2007 | 361 | #665 |
| 2008 | 577 | #481 |
| 2009 | 713 | #414 |
| 2010 | 860 | #356 |
| 2011 | 937 | #330 |
| 2012 | 1,042 | #314 |
| 2013 | 1,244 | #280 |
| 2014 | 1,525 | #245 |
| 2015 | 1,821 | #218 |
| 2016 | 1,839 | #214 |
| 2017 | 1,687 | #227 |
| 2018 | 1,652 | #230 |
| 2019 | 1,772 | #215 |
| 2020 | 1,810 | #210 |
| 2021 | 1,923 | #198 |
| 2022 | 1,963 | #195 |
| 2023 | 1,873 | #196 |
| 2024 | 2,186 | #166 |
