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Rebeca

#1,339 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Rebecca

Rebeca has been given to 14,198 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #1,339 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 422 recorded.

Babies named Rebeca, 2025

1 in 20,000

Rebeca over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rebeca: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Rebecca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rebeca means

Rebeca is a English equivalent of Rebecca.

Origin, language, and formation

Rebeca is used in Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Rebeca is pronounced /ʁeˈbɛ.kɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,193 girls were recorded with the name Rebeca between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 422 in 2003; its best national rank was #634 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,245 in 2020 to #1,339 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,326 in 2015 to #1,339 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Rebeca between 1986 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1986; its best national rank was #7,571 in 1986.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rebeca?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,000
166 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,680
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,339
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,844 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rebeca 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 13,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rebeca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rebecas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rebeca was born before 1996 — so the typical Rebeca is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,413
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2000s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (3,122).

Is Rebeca 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
−71
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−94
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−13
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.3%
Peak was 2003 (422)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#634
2003

Spellings of Rebeca

Rebeca is not the most common spelling — Rebecca is, with 82.3% against Rebeca's 1.5%.

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 Rebeca is used

Across 2016–2025, Rebeca was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 7,630 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 4,762
  3. 3Maryland1 in 4,762
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 5,556
  5. 5California1 in 5,882
  6. 6Florida1 in 5,882
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 8,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 10,000

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.

Rebeca around the world

Where Rebeca 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
    1996–2025
    #1,197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2019
    #560
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2020
    #281
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1920–2025
    #2,343
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1972–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rebeca

People whose public names include Rebeca, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rebeca in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rebeca. Linked forms have their own page here.

RebekaRebeccaRebeckaRebekkaRébecca

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rebeca by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,339
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 94
Best rank ever
#634
2003
Peak year
2003
422 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,193
Count in 2025
166

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,571
1986
Peak year
1986
5 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rebeca

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

RebbecaRebekaRebeckaRebaRebekahRebelSenecaRebekkaRebbeccaRebeccaRebekkahRebeccahJessecaTamecaRebeckahVivecaRebieRebecahRebbieRebakahJamecaRebaccaTomecaShameca

Names with a curve like Rebeca

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

SheaChristianaMarcelaSarinaDamarisCelinaAraceliJanaeCarinaKeelyStormyFlor

Sibling names for Rebeca

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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