Meaning not yet researched.
Rebekah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 302 in 2025. Its best rank was #143 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #143 in 1982; #884 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rebekah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#884 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #143.
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Rebekah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 302 girls in 2025. Peak: #143 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 2,222 (1996).
In 2025, 302 US girls were named Rebekah, making it the 884th most common girls’ name of the year, down 7 places from #877 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 308 girls named Rebekah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #143, reached in 1982. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,222, in 1996. For comparison, it was #519 in 2015 and #896 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rebekah in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 7 babies. In all, 75,915 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 20,934 babies named Rebekah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,678 US girls were named Rebekah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 527. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,322 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rebekah ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #248 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rebecca (758,106 babies since 1880), Rebeca (14,198 babies since 1880), Rebecka (3,319 babies since 1880) and Rebeka (2,660 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rebakah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rebakah (133).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rebekah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #248 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #384 | #300 |
| Idaho | 5 | #466 | #307 |
| Michigan | 15 | #541 | #622 |
| Ohio | 19 | #556 | #692 |
| Missouri | 10 | #583 | #372 |
| Arizona | 11 | #623 | #828 |
| Alabama | 8 | #624 | #483 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #641 | #379 |
| Indiana | 8 | #790 | #370 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #811 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #812 | #487 |
| Texas | 35 | #858 | #464 |
| Florida | 18 | #908 | #535 |
| Maryland | 5 | #965 | #866 |
| Illinois | 9 | #995 | #656 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,021 | #404 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,050 | #481 |
| California | 23 | #1,144 | #606 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,152 | #495 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,206 | #548 |
| New York | 9 | #1,496 | #811 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,629 | #591 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 302 | #884 | — | — |
| 2024 | 308 | #877 | — | — |
| 2023 | 254 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 2022 | 289 | #939 | — | — |
| 2021 | 331 | #834 | — | — |
| 2020 | 352 | #773 | — | — |
| 2019 | 399 | #716 | — | — |
| 2018 | 415 | #703 | — | — |
| 2017 | 501 | #604 | — | — |
| 2016 | 527 | #584 | — | — |
| 2015 | 606 | #519 | — | — |
| 2014 | 628 | #497 | — | — |
| 2013 | 664 | #463 | — | — |
| 2012 | 714 | #439 | — | — |
| 2011 | 720 | #434 | — | — |
| 2010 | 795 | #404 | — | — |
| 2009 | 891 | #362 | — | — |
| 2008 | 947 | #353 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,107 | #308 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,227 | #267 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,282 | #254 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,389 | #235 | 5 | #12,805 |
| 2003 | 1,503 | #217 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,571 | #211 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,738 | #188 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,896 | #173 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,067 | #156 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,030 | #155 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,057 | #151 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,222 | #146 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,071 | #156 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,159 | #152 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,108 | #148 | — | — |
| 1992 | 2,106 | #145 | — | — |
| 1991 | 2,063 | #147 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,044 | #149 | 7 | #7,002 |
| 1989 | 1,869 | #154 | 12 | #4,467 |
| 1988 | 1,696 | #168 | 5 | #8,241 |
| 1987 | 1,732 | #161 | 8 | #5,341 |
| 1986 | 1,835 | #153 | 8 | #5,230 |
| 1985 | 1,791 | #159 | 6 | #6,351 |
| 1984 | 1,803 | #157 | 11 | #3,879 |
| 1983 | 1,899 | #152 | 7 | #5,349 |
| 1982 | 2,059 | #143 | 8 | #4,908 |
| 1981 | 1,906 | #149 | 8 | #4,860 |
| 1980 | 1,729 | #162 | 10 | #4,063 |
| 1979 | 1,519 | #178 | — | — |
| 1978 | 1,343 | #193 | 11 | #3,559 |
| 1977 | 1,329 | #200 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,187 | #207 | 6 | #5,458 |
| 1975 | 1,071 | #227 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,023 | #250 | 7 | #4,525 |
| 1973 | 763 | #305 | — | — |
| 1972 | 539 | #389 | — | — |
| 1971 | 505 | #420 | — | — |
| 1970 | 375 | #519 | — | — |
| 1969 | 344 | #532 | — | — |
| 1968 | 273 | #580 | — | — |
| 1967 | 285 | #559 | — | — |
| 1966 | 258 | #589 | — | — |
| 1965 | 239 | #633 | — | — |
| 1964 | 217 | #706 | — | — |
| 1963 | 191 | #745 | — | — |
| 1962 | 213 | #707 | — | — |
| 1961 | 187 | #767 | — | — |
| 1960 | 194 | #727 | — | — |
| 1959 | 202 | #705 | — | — |
| 1958 | 197 | #703 | — | — |
| 1957 | 208 | #693 | — | — |
| 1956 | 210 | #662 | — | — |
| 1955 | 202 | #659 | — | — |
| 1954 | 197 | #655 | — | — |
| 1953 | 189 | #656 | — | — |
| 1952 | 173 | #676 | — | — |
| 1951 | 146 | #723 | — | — |
| 1950 | 98 | #896 | — | — |
| 1949 | 96 | #907 | — | — |
| 1948 | 83 | #961 | — | — |
| 1947 | 88 | #948 | — | — |
| 1946 | 68 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1941 | 63 | #932 | — | — |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1936 | 25 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,464 | — | — |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1930 | 18 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,242 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,357 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,120 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1883 | 7 | #808 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).