Meaning not yet researched.
Rivka: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 464 in 2025. Its best rank was #629 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Rivka in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#629 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Rivka: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 464 girls in 2025. Peak: #629 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 464 (2025).
In 2025, 464 US girls were named Rivka, making it the 629th most common girls’ name of the year, up 78 places from #707 in 2024. That is 66 more than the 398 girls named Rivka in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #629, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 464. For comparison, it was #862 in 2015 and #2,877 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rivka in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 10,022 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,024 babies named Rivka.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,694 US girls were named Rivka; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 464. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,464 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rivka ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #40 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rebecca (758,106 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rivkah 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: Rivkah (1,224).
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 Rivka 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 152 | #40 | #91 |
| New York | 258 | #47 | #85 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #533 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,100 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,660 | #1,799 |
| California | 6 | #3,032 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 464 | #629 | — | — |
| 2024 | 398 | #707 | — | — |
| 2023 | 384 | #733 | — | — |
| 2022 | 353 | #799 | — | — |
| 2021 | 375 | #762 | — | — |
| 2020 | 348 | #781 | — | — |
| 2019 | 381 | #743 | — | — |
| 2018 | 315 | #862 | — | — |
| 2017 | 342 | #801 | — | — |
| 2016 | 334 | #851 | — | — |
| 2015 | 324 | #862 | — | — |
| 2014 | 293 | #921 | — | — |
| 2013 | 270 | #937 | — | — |
| 2012 | 251 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 2011 | 266 | #963 | — | — |
| 2010 | 248 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2009 | 235 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 2008 | 216 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2007 | 207 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 2005 | 190 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2003 | 176 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 2002 | 178 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1996 | 119 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1990 | 108 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1988 | 100 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1985 | 73 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1984 | 85 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,617 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,823 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,737 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,449 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,750 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,103 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,887 | — | — |
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).