Beck is an English and Scandinavian surname that comes from the Old Norse bekkr and means "stream" or "brook", and it doubles as a short form of Beckett and Beckham. The singer Beck, famous for Loser and Odelay, made the single syllable a plausible first name. Beck sat just outside the US top 1000 for most of the past decade, at number 1006 in 2024, and entered the list in 2025 at number 913.