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Rebbecca

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rebbecca has been given to 2,315 babies in the U.S. since 1907. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Rebbecca, 2009

1 in 764,000

Rebbecca over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rebbecca: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rebbecca means

Rebbecca is a given name.

The naming story behind Rebbecca

Wikidata records Rebbecca as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q130598925, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,315 girls were recorded with the name Rebbecca between 1907 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,425 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Rebbecca?

Rebbecca had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rebbecca sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rebbecca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rebbeccas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rebbecca was born before 1973 — so the typical Rebbecca is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
23.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,120
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (546).

Is Rebbecca rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (74)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,425
1975

Spellings of Rebbecca

Rebbecca is not the most common spelling — Rebecca is, with 97.0% against Rebbecca's 0.30%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Rebbecca is used

Across 1910–2025, Rebbecca was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 232,268 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rebbecca has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rebbecca around the world

Where Rebbecca ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2006
    #3,548
    in 2006
  • Scotland
    1993–1993
    #623
    in 1993
  • Canada
    1992–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1969–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rebbecca by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,425
1975
Peak year
1975
74 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
2,315
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rebbecca

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Rebbecca

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rebbecca, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Rebbecca

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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