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Beecher

Recorded 1884–2022 · United States

Beecher was most popular in 1921, when 36 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,391 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,019 people named Beecher.

Most popular in1921
Rank that year#2,391
Births that year36
Total since 18801,019
Given to100% boys
Alive today~240
Median age72
OriginGerman

Beecher over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Beecher’s peak in 1921. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Beecher?

Beecher first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1884, which makes it about 141 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 76 of the 142 years since.

How many people are named Beecher?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,019 American births named Beecher between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 240 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Beecher in 2025?

Beecher was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Beecher getting more or less popular?

Beecher is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 5 births a year across 2021–2025.

Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.

Is Beecher a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Beecher is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 1,019 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Beecher?

Roughly 240 Americans named Beecher are alive today — 24% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 72 years old, and half are between 62 and 80.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Beecher is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org