Thoughts on the name Beca

[Chloejean]

Hey y’all, my sister-in-law is having a baby so I’m gonna be an auntie!! And we’re trying to think of names and we both kind of like the name Beca (not short for Rebecca, just Beca) and of you like it could you give us some middle names!! Thanks❤️❤️

Beca is a strange spelling. It looks like it should be pronounced like 'beaker' in most English accents, rather than Becca, which I assume is the pronunciation you are going for. Just saying. I'm not a fan, sorry.

I think she would spend the rest of her life explaining how it's spelt, and that it's not short for anything, and that it's not pronounced "beaker" or "baker". I don't want to be mean, but I'd reconsider this one.

I don't like it, just sounds like a child that is struggling to say Rebecca

Sounds like the name of a character in those bad tween dystopian novels that try to hard to be the next hunger games

Beaker is a character from the muppets

I’d pronounce it Beaker. Becca is fine though although she’ll be in for a lifetime of “not it’s not Rebecca, just Becca”

Nope, sorry

It is a perfectly decent nn, but people are going to be assuming she is actually called Rebecca her whole life.

No I think Rebecca would be better. You can use Becca as a nick name.

I'd just think of Boris Becker if I heard 'Beca'. As other pp's have said go with Becca as a nn - Rebecca is a lovely name for an adult/child. Beca wouldn't go far on a grown woman imo.

I'd just think of Boris Becker if I heard 'Beca'. As other pp's have said go with Becca as a nn - Rebecca is a lovely name for an adult/child. Beca wouldn't go far on a grown woman imo.

Not sure why you are choosing your niece's name

Well it’s not a name for starters.

Honestly I’d just give the kid an actual name (Rebecca) on paper and just use Becca (which I assume is how you intend it to be pronounced rather than Beaker) in everyday parlance.

I’ve got a friend who never goes by her official name, she hates it! She uses her nickname in day to day life. It’s not so unusual to do this.

I once worked with someone whose surname was spelt that way. Apparently it's actually an English bastardisation of an Arabic surname - possibly Abubakar but I can't remember 100% now.

Sorry, I also think it would be a badly-spelt nn for Rebecca.

Neither of you have seen pitch perfect then. All I’d do is screech/ caw ‘beca! Beca!’ Like a manic crow.
No. Silly. Hate it.

FFS just use Rebecca on birth certificate and give Bec(c)a as the nickname.

I thought you had forgotten to finish spelling Because.
I would not choose it. Setting a child up for a lifetime of explaining name/spelling.
There are millions of names, I'm sure there is something suitable.

We kinda like the idea of the nickname for a name like I have some friends names Maggie, not Margaret and Coco not short for anything idk it’s kinda fun. And I’m just helping her brainstorm idea I’m not picking them out for her. But does anybody have a middle name for Beca (yes pronounced Becca)

And how do you guys get the pronounciations beaker and Baker from beca lol that’s konda random

I agree it looks like beaker. Why can’t you just spell Becca the correct way?

It just looks like you can’t spell.

You need two consonants to give to hard ‘K’ sound you are looking for. One consonant gives way to the preceding vowel hence ‘beaker’ not ‘Becca’.

Not ‘kinda random’ just how the English language works or certainly how it used to before people started pissing about with it...

But does anybody have a middle name for Beca (yes pronounced Becca)

Beca-Mae?

That's Beaker. You need to spell it Becca.