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❤️❤️

@3out I’m Scottish and can’t understand how Beca would sound like beaker. If I read Beca I would guess it was said Be-cah**

But Be-Cah is Beaker?! Be as in be... Cah as in car. In English phonetics surely you mean Beh-ka?! Nevermind.

It's two c's. It's not clever or yooneek to miss or mix up letters, it changes pronunciation - that's what the letters are for!

Rhotic or not, I think the point Count was trying to make was that not everyone turns ‘a’ into ‘er’, which is what the OP couldn’t understand (when they asked where everyone was getting ‘beaker’ from).

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But Be-Cah is Beaker?! Be as in be... Cah as in car. In English phonetics surely you mean Beh-ka?! Nevermind. ’

Because cah doesn’t sound like car in most (all?) Scottish accents. The A sounds are different in cah and car (plus, we’d pronounce the R, but I get what you’re trying to convey)

If only there was a baby names board on here ..... oh wait there is! Talking about baby names of children you will never meet is the same as listening to someone else dream

I like your username 😂

It's a shit name. And why spell it wrongly? Anyone with a basic education can see it's pronounced beaker. Makes you look thick.

Well it’s not a name for starters

It's a Welsh name. I know loads!

Becca - with two Cs - is fine.

Middle names:
Anne
Blue
Jane
Louise
Rose

To me one syllable names with a 'softer' sound go best as a middle name after Becca.

Spell it Becker?

Marie

@3out Oh the 'r' in Beaker- sorry I was misunderstanding, I'm looking at Beca like what r Yes I see what you mean.
OP isn't Scottish though? Or have I missed that, too? Severe baby brain this morning! Think I'd be better off shutting the f up and going back to bed!

Know quite a few people called Beca it’s a Welsh name

I would wonder if it was pronounced 'beaker' due to the spelling. Or might think it was supposed to be Becca.

Tons of Becca’s Here in Wales
Know a few myself and several in school with my kids

That's grand. But I'm not sure what point you're making given the OP wants to call the child Beca...

*CrazyCrunk

Or even Rih as first name, Becca as middle name?

I don’t know why you asked for opinions, everyone says it’s rubbish then you push on and ask for a middle name that goes with it!

Siobhan is pronounced' Shuvon ' the I is before the O , I thought that was what 3out was pointing out?

I know a couple of people called Beca (I'm Welsh).

So all these comments about 'yoonique ' and"why can't you spell it properly? " are being rather anglocentric.

I am still giggling an hour later at Beca Squeaker

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)

What is kinda fun about Beca pronounced Becca, so obviously everyone is just going to think it is short for Rebecca.

Is the Fun in the Yoonique spelling which has been pointed out is actually quite common in Wales?

Why don't you just call her Lyd, short for Lydia?
Or George short for Georgina?
Or An short for Ann?

In Wales Beca is a common name and one consonant is fine; in Wales you don’t need a double consonant - Eg: The Welsh spelling of Harry is Hari, Kerry is Ceri. If you’re in Wales the spelling Beca is fine.

If you’re in England then I would spell it Becca as otherwise the pronounciation could be ambiguous.

Also, I know lots of babies with nicknames used as full names: Harry, Charlie, Alfie, Freddie, Ben, Max, Archie, Penny, Millie, Beth, Lottie, Ellie etc. Lots of these children have no full name on the birth certificate - I don’t think Becca is any different.

The A sounds are different in cah and car

Exactly. In my accent 'car' sounds like 'kerr' as in Judith with a rolled r but if you missed out the 'r' it would be 'eh' not 'ah'. So the English conflation of 'a' and 'er' makes no sense to a rhotic speaker because the vowel sounds are completely different never mind the presence of an 'r'.

I don't see a difference between the pronounciation of the names Beca and Becca but that's because I recognise them both as a NN for Rebecca/Rebeca. Rebeca being the Spanish spelling, just to make clear to people who think it's a misspelling .

Interestingly Becca would be a more ‘yoonique’ spelling than Becca:

Approximately 5-10 babies born a year named Becca vs 15-20 babies called Beca so I would say Beca is the more established name of the two spellings.