Rebekka
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rebekka 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 German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rebekah. (biblical character).
- 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●
4 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 Rebeka in HU Hungary, IN India, CZ Czechia.
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●
Rebekah. (biblical character)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- German17K24%
- English14K20%
- Finnish10K15%
- Norwegian Bokmål7.8K11%
- Danish6.2K9%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 17,126 | 24% |
| English | 14,105 | 20% |
| Finnish | 10,449 | 15% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 7,800 | 11% |
| Danish | 6,243 | 9% |
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●
Rebekka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Rebecka: weibl. Vom. hebräi schen Ursprungs (hebr. ribqä, vielleicht zu hebr. baqar »Rind«). Nach der Bibel war
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Hebrew name, probably 'to tie, bind'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 |
|---|---|
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 16 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 12 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 26 |
| 1975 | 34 |
| 1976 | 24 |
| 1977 | 40 |
| 1978 | 46 |
| 1979 | 40 |
| 1980 | 53 |
| 1981 | 52 |
| 1982 | 46 |
| 1983 | 62 |
| 1984 | 49 |
| 1985 | 44 |
| 1986 | 47 |
| 1987 | 62 |
| 1988 | 74 |
| 1989 | 57 |
| 1990 | 85 |
| 1991 | 81 |
| 1992 | 75 |
| 1993 | 75 |
| 1994 | 76 |
| 1995 | 70 |
| 1996 | 78 |
| 1997 | 93 |
| 1998 | 54 |
| 1999 | 46 |
| 2000 | 61 |
| 2001 | 45 |
| 2002 | 42 |
| 2003 | 35 |
| 2004 | 32 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 42 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 25 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 25 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 19 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1966–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pocahontasb. 1596USnot in their usual nameAmerican native woman
- Dolly Partonb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Rebecca De Mornayb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Rebecca Romijnb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and model (born 1972)
- Rebecca Maderb. 1977GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress
- Rebecca Hallb. 1982GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress and filmmaker (born 1982)
- Rebecca Fergusonb. 1983SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (born 1983)
- Emily Kinneyb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer-songwriter
- Becky Hillb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer (born 1994)
- Rebecca Blackb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
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 61 sources across 30 countries.
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 · 430 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rebekka?
- We estimate roughly 897 thousand people bear Rebekka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rebekka have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 645 thousand people bear Rebekka in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rebecca.
- How common is Rebekka compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rebekka is the 74th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Rebekka a male or female name?
- Rebekka 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 Rebekka mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rebekah. (biblical character)
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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, “Rebekka” — the 74th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.