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Rebekka

Girls' name

Enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare

Rebekka has been given to 2,061 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1997, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Rebekka, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rebekka: meaning, origin, and history

Enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare

Biblical Hebrew

What Rebekka means

Rebekka means “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”, associated with Riḇqāh.

Origin, language, and formation

Rebekka is used in Danish, Faroese, Finnish, German and Norwegian. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Rebekka is pronounced [ɹeˈbɛʰkːa].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,061 girls were recorded with the name Rebekka between 1966 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 93 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,691 in 1997.

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 Rebekka?

Rebekka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rebekka 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rebekka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rebekkas were born

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

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,061
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (733).

Is Rebekka 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 1997 (93)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,691
1997

Spellings of Rebekka

Rebekka is not the most common spelling — Rebecca is, with 88.3% against Rebekka's 0.24%.

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 Rebekka is used

Across 1910–2025, Rebekka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 214,927 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Minnesota1 in —
  7. 7Missouri1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Rebekka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rebekka around the world

Where Rebekka 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
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Scotland
    1992–2008
    #572
    in 2008
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–1998
    #351
    in 1998
  • France
    1991–1991
    #3,204
    in 1991
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #302
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1979–2002
    #475
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Rebekka

People whose public names include Rebekka, 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.

Rebekka in other languages

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

RebecaRebekaRebeccaRebeckaRébecca

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

Rebekka 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
#1,691
1997
Peak year
1997
93 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,061
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rebekka

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

RebeckaRebekaRebelRebbecaRebbeccaRebekkahRebeccahRebecaRebeckahRebecahRebekahRebakahErikkaRebaccaRebekhaRebelleRebieTamikkaRebaRebbieMikkaTanikkaAnikkaRebekan

Names with a curve like Rebekka

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

MelyssaCorissaRaechelChassityKateyDeandreaDanishaKarisaJaneaCourtnieMyeshaKacee

Sibling names for Rebekka

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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