Given name & surname
Bex
“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”
Bex is a feminine given name.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bex 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, Bex 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, Bex is a diminutive of Rebecca.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Bex 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
Bex through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 138
- 108 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 26
- #5,062 for boys · #12,118 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +197%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,062 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 7 birth records for girls in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 413 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.
Bex’s family of names
In English usage, Bex is a diminutive of Rebecca. In English usage, Bex has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Бекс. In English usage, Bex has a related form in BECKS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bex
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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