Rebeka
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rebeka is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Rebecca, from Biblical Hebrew רִבְקָה.
- ILIsrael1 in 188◐
- AUAustralia1 in 244
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 362
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈897K ●
- #219 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 587 ●
- 1 in 516 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
7.8M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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, Rebeca in BR Brazil, ES Spain, EC Ecuador 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●
- LatinRebecca●
- Biblical Hebrewרִבְקָה●
Borrowed from Latin Rebecca, from Biblical Hebrew רִבְקָה.
Sources 2
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #74 | 644,902 | 5.7M rec. | 1 in 516 | 645K | Rebecca | 587 |
| GB United Kingdom | #59 | 570,929 | 450K rec. | — | 5 | Rebecca | 310 |
| AU Australia | #31 | 475,682 | 313K rec. | — | 97 | Rebecca | 316 |
| IL Israel | #17 | 359,629 | 372K rec. | — | 158 | רבקה | 81 |
| BR Brazil | #285 | 160,693△ | 43K rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 161K | Rebeca | 180 |
| CA Canada | #73 | 155,233 | 127K rec. | — | 20 | Rebecca | 246 |
| PH Philippines | #147 | 125,615 | 121K rec. | — | — | Rebecca | 117 |
| IT Italy | #93 | 89,999 | 41K rec. | — | 1.2K | Rebecca | 167 |
| DE Germany | #268 | 84,197 | 78K rec. | — | 1 | Rebecca | 226 |
| NG Nigeria | #147 | 44,698 | 56K rec. | — | — | Rebecca | 107 |
| KE Kenya | #138 | 35,735 | 6.1K rec. | — | — | Rebecca | 58 |
| ES Spain | — | 31,785 | 22K rec. | 1 in 1.6K | 32K | Rebeca | 145 |
Roughly 645K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 516). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian119K48%
- Portuguese62K25%
- English20K8%
- Swahili9.4K4%
- Hindi5.2K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 118,781 | 48% |
| Portuguese | 61,689 | 25% |
| English | 20,349 | 8% |
| Swahili | 9,425 | 4% |
| Hindi | 5,155 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rebeka 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 Polish, Rebekah (sister of Laban and wife to Isaac)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, Rebekah (biblical character).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Bībelē, Vecajā Derībā, un ebreju mitoloģijā - patriarha Īzāka sieva
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 15 |
| 1973 | 14 |
| 1974 | 19 |
| 1975 | 28 |
| 1976 | 19 |
| 1977 | 29 |
| 1978 | 35 |
| 1979 | 33 |
| 1980 | 30 |
| 1981 | 41 |
| 1982 | 45 |
| 1983 | 41 |
| 1984 | 46 |
| 1985 | 37 |
| 1986 | 42 |
| 1987 | 55 |
| 1988 | 55 |
| 1989 | 66 |
| 1990 | 87 |
| 1991 | 93 |
| 1992 | 92 |
| 1993 | 93 |
| 1994 | 85 |
| 1995 | 74 |
| 1996 | 86 |
| 1997 | 79 |
| 1998 | 84 |
| 1999 | 77 |
| 2000 | 72 |
| 2001 | 63 |
| 2002 | 77 |
| 2003 | 78 |
| 2004 | 65 |
| 2005 | 77 |
| 2006 | 70 |
| 2007 | 65 |
| 2008 | 61 |
| 2009 | 60 |
| 2010 | 52 |
| 2011 | 40 |
| 2012 | 40 |
| 2013 | 37 |
| 2014 | 21 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 24 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 13 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 66 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rebeka Njaub. 1932KEKenyan artist, playwright and novelist
- Rebeka Szabób. 1977HUHungarian politician
- Rebeka Dremeljb. 1980SISlovenian singer, actor and model
- Rebeka Kimb. 1998KRSouth Korean figure skater
- Dalma Gálfib. 1998HUnot in their usual nameHungarian female tennis player
- Rebeka Ibrahimab. 1998LVLatvian weightlifter
- Rebeka Masarovab. 1999CHSpanish tennis player
- Rebeka Mikulášikováb. 1999SKSlovak basketball player (born 1999)
- Rebeka Benzsayb. 2000HUHungarian beach handball player
- Rebeka MontoyaUSAmerican actress
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●
Attested in 77 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 14K | #91 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.4K | #2,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.9K | #5,816 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.5K | #5,205 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.4K | #312 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.4K | #170 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.3K | #353 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.3K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 978 | #487 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 819 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 776 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 562 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rebeka?
- We estimate roughly 897 thousand people bear Rebeka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rebeka have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 645 thousand people bear Rebeka in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rebecca.
- How common is Rebeka compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rebeka is the 74th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Rebeka a male or female name?
- Rebeka 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 Rebeka mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Rebecca, from Biblical Hebrew רִבְקָה.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rebeka” — the 74th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.