Given name & surname
Becks
“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”
Becks is a feminine given name.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Becks is a diminutive of Rebecca. Rebecca goes back to Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka), meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In English use, Becks is a diminutive of Rebecca. Rebecca has been associated with Latin and Hebrew naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Becks is a diminutive of Rebecca.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Becks is a diminutive of Rebecca. The history of Rebecca gives this family its wider story. Rebecca has a place in biblical naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Becks through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,280 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,280 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 874 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Becks’s family of names
In English usage, Becks is a diminutive of Rebecca. In German usage, Becks as a surname has a related form in Beck. In English usage, Becks has a related form in BEX.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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