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Rebecka

#14,543 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Rebecca

Rebecka has been given to 3,319 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #14,543 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Rebecka, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rebecka: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rebecca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rebecka means

Rebecka is a variant of Rebecca.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rebecka is used in Swedish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rebecka → Rebecca. The family’s meaning is “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”, recorded in English with the source elements Rivka.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,319 girls were recorded with the name Rebecka between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,369 in 1993.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,343 in 2015 to #14,543 in 2025.

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 Rebecka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,543
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rebecka 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rebecka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rebeckas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rebecka was born before 1990 — so the typical Rebecka is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,314
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (1,010).

Is Rebecka 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,200
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.0%
Peak was 1993 (121)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,369
1993

Spellings of Rebecka

Rebecka is not the most common spelling — Rebecca is, with 87.7% against Rebecka's 0.39%.

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 Rebecka is used

Across 1910–2025, Rebecka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 110,972 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Montana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Arizona1 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. Rebecka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rebecka around the world

Where Rebecka 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
    1996–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • Scotland
    1992–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • France
    1998–2005
    #5,510
    in 2005
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #559
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1974–1997
    #681
    in 1997

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

Notable people named Rebecka

People whose public names include Rebecka, 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.

Rebecka in other languages

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

RebecaRebekaRebeccaRebekkaRébecca

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

Rebecka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,543
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,369
1993
Peak year
1993
121 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,319
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Rebecka

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

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Names with a curve like Rebecka

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

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Sibling names for Rebecka

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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