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Rebeckah

Girls' name

Variant of Rebecca

Rebeckah has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1996, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Rebeckah, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rebeckah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rebecca

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rebeckah means

Rebeckah is a variant of Rebecca.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rebeckah is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɹə.ˈbɛk.ə/ for Rebeckah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rebeckah → 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, 652 girls were recorded with the name Rebeckah between 1956 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1996; its best national rank was #4,135 in 1982.

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 Rebeckah?

Rebeckah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rebeckah 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rebeckah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rebeckahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rebeckah was born before 1992 — so the typical Rebeckah is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
652
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Rebeckah 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 1996 (26)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,135
1982

Spellings of Rebeckah

Rebeckah is not the most common spelling — Rebecca is, with 88.1% against Rebeckah's 0.08%.

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 Rebeckah is used

Across 1910–2025, Rebeckah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 667,199 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Rebeckah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rebeckah around the world

Where Rebeckah 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
    1996–2000
    #3,912
    in 2000
  • Scotland
    1996–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1973–2001
    #711
    in 2001

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

Rebeckah 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
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Best rank ever
#4,135
1982
Peak year
1996
26 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
652
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rebeckah

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

RebekkahRebakahRebekahRebeccahRebbecaMalikahRebeckaRebbeccaRebekaRebelRebecahRebekkaRivkahErykahRebaccaRebekhaMykahJessikahMikahMakkahRebelleRebecaBarakahRebie

Sibling names for Rebeckah

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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