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Rebecca
Pronounced /ɹɪˈbɛkə/
Rank in 2024
#341
Born in 2024
910
Peak year
1981 · #12
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 910 girls were named Rebecca, about 1 in every 1,773.
- It peaked in 1981 with 16,737 babies, ranked #12.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 755,083 girls have been named Rebecca since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Rebecca per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.1Greatest1901–27
- 1.6Silent1928–45
- 5.3Boomers1946–64
- 8.0Gen X1965–80
- 7.3Millennials1981–96
- 2.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 23,099 babies, 1.13 per 1,000. Silent: 33,387 babies, 1.62 per 1,000. Boomers: 190,914 babies, 5.33 per 1,000. Gen X: 203,556 babies, 7.97 per 1,000. Millennials: 205,188 babies, 7.27 per 1,000. Gen Z: 75,655 babies, 2.60 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16,272 babies, 0.80 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).
- A female given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew], in regular use since the Reformation.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ɹɪˈbɛkə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Rebecca, CC BY-SA 4.0.