Rebeca

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rebecca in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 15 more, רבקה in IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 2 more, Rebeka in HU Hungary, IN India, CZ Czechia and Rébecca in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rebeca is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name890K records spelled Rebeca3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Peru

  Also written Rëbëcä

• English given name302K records spelled Rebeca21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Rébeca, Řëbëčä, Rëbëça, Řebecä, Rébéca

• Catalan given name39K records spelled Rebeca9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Rébéca, Rébeca, Rebéca, Rëbëcä, Rébécà

• a separate given name24K records spelled Rebeca2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Rebéca

• Vietnamese given name1.4K records spelled Rebeca3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Vietnam, India

  Languages: Vietnamese, Khmer

  Also written Rébéca

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rebeca is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, Rebekah (biblical character)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Hebreo Rivká, 'lazo, nudo corredizo'; esposa de Isaac.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Lazo corredizo, trampa, atadura

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Catalan, cardigan

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 120 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rebeca Iturbideb. 1924MXMexican actress (1924–2003)
• Rebeca Grynspan Mayufisb. 1955CRCosta Rican politician
• Rebeca Manríquezb. 1959MXMexican actress and voice actress
• Rebeca Arthurb. 1960USAmerican actress
• María Rebecab. 1970MXMexican actress
• Rebeca Escribensb. 1977PEPeruvian actress
• Rebeca Linaresb. 1983ESSpanish pornographic actress
• Rebeca Gyumib. 1986TZLawyer, Activist (* 1986)
• Rebeca Andradeb. 1999BRBrazilian artistic gymnast
• Rebeca del Fresnoactress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 903 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rebeca?

We estimate roughly 897 thousand people bear Rebeca (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Rebeca have the most bearers?

We estimate about 645 thousand people bear Rebeca in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rebecca.

How common is Rebeca compared with other names?

In the United States, Rebeca is the 74th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Rebeca a male or female name?

Rebeca is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Rebeca mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Rebecca or Rebekah