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Rivka

#629 in 2025Girls' name

To join, couple, tie, through רִבְקָה

Rivka has been given to 10,022 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #629 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 464 recorded.

Babies named Rivka, 2025

1 in 7,140

Rivka over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rivka: meaning, origin, and history

To join, couple, tie, through רִבְקָה

Hebrew

What Rivka means

Rivka belongs to the name family reached through Rivka → רִבְקָה. Its meaning is “to join, couple, tie”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew רִבְקָה (rivká) or Yiddish רבֿקה (rivke). Doublet of Rebecca.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Rivka (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Rivka is used in English and Dutch. Its origins include Hebrew.

Rivka comes through Hebrew רִבְקָה and Yiddish רבֿקה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rebecca and רִבְקָה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,022 girls were recorded with the name Rivka between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 464 in 2025; its best national rank was #629 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #781 in 2020 to #629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #862 in 2015 to #629 in 2025.

How common is Rivka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,140
464 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,460
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#629
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,954 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rivka 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,954 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rivka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rivkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rivka was born before 2011 — so the typical Rivka is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,017
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (3,024).

Is Rivka 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
+78
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+152
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+233
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (464)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#629
2025

Spellings of Rivka

Rivka is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 46.7% against Rivka's 1.6%.

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 Rivka is used

Across 2016–2025, Rivka was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 298 girls, against 1 in 2,069 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

0336 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 298
  2. 2New York1 in 408
  3. 3Maryland1 in 4,762
  4. 4Illinois1 in 12,500
  5. 5Florida1 in 16,667
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 33,333

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.

Rivka around the world

Where Rivka 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
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #4,049
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Rivka

People whose public names include Rivka, 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.

Rivka in other languages

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

RifkaRivkahRebecca

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

Rivka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 152
Best rank ever
#629
2025
Peak year
2025
464 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,022
Count in 2025
464

Names similar to Rivka

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

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Names with a curve like Rivka

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

AliaKaiVioletaAlizaMalkaTreasureSeleneSamiraAmarisSkyReinaBelen

Sibling names for Rivka

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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