Entry № 1314 · English origin

Beckham Beckham — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEK-uhm /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Homestead by the stream (David and Victoria Beckham)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "homestead by the stream (david and victoria beckham)".

Beckham is from the Old English bæc (stream) + hām (homestead, settlement). Bend It Like Beckham (2002) — Gurinder Chadha's film starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley; the title refers to Beckham's iconic free-kick style; voted one of the most-influential British sports films of all time.

Homestead by the stream.

The name in its native script.

Beckham
Transliteration
Beckham
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛk.əm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Beckham stands.

Beckham 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.

Beckhams before her.

Real people
Victoria Beckham
Posh Spice + fashion designer.
born 1974
In fiction
Bend It Like Beckham
Iconic Gurinder Chadha film.
2002

Names connected to Beckham.

The number behind Beckham.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Beckham reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.