Meaning and history
From an English surname that could be derived from several sources, including Middle English bec meaning “beak” or bekke meaning “stream, brook.”
20062006: 281 births, rank #752
2007: 361 births, rank #665
2008: 577 births, rank #481
2009: 713 births, rank #414
2010: 860 births, rank #356
20112011: 937 births, rank #330
2012: 1,042 births, rank #314
2013: 1,244 births, rank #280
2014: 1,525 births, rank #245
2015: 1,822 births, rank #218
20162016: 1,839 births, rank #214
2017: 1,687 births, rank #227
2018: 1,653 births, rank #229
2019: 1,772 births, rank #215
2020: 1,810 births, rank #210
20212021: 1,923 births, rank #198
2022: 1,963 births, rank #195
2023: 1,873 births, rank #196
2024: 2,196 births, rank #166
20252025: 2,518 births, rank #141
Beckett rose from #166 to #141 for boys between 2024 and 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 2,518.