Entry № 1315 · English origin

Becky Becky — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEK-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"To bind (Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair; Becky G)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "to bind (becky sharp in vanity fair; becky g)".

Becky is the English diminutive of Rebecca — from the Hebrew Rivkah ("to bind, to ensnare," implying something captivating).

To bind (Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair; Becky G) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Becky
Transliteration
Becky
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛk.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Becky stands.

Becky does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Beckys before her.

Real people
Becky G
American Latina singer.
born 1997
Becky Lynch
Irish professional wrestler.
born 1987
In fiction
Becky Sharp
Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
1847

Names connected to Becky.

The number behind Becky.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Becky reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.