Rebeca
Rebeca was given to 166 girls in 2025, #1,339 among girls’ names; 14,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Rebeca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rebeca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rebeca mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Rebeca is “a female given name, equivalent to English Rebecca”
/reˈbeka/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rebeca?
#1,339 among girls’ names, 2025
Rebeca fell from #1,326 in 2015 to #1,339 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 0.10 per 1,000.
422 babies in 2003, the peak
Rebeca peaked in 2003, when 422 girls were given it, #634 among girls’ names. The 166 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 166 | #1,339 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 184 | #1,268 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,296 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 184 | #1,291 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 146 | #1,473 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 183 | #1,245 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,343 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 176 | #1,297 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 167 | #1,385 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,169 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 179 | #1,326 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 189 | #1,274 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 208 | #1,160 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,146 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 219 | #1,120 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 201 | #1,205 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 282 | #948 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,027 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 284 | #958 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 315 | #853 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 326 | #797 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 359 | #736 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 422 | #634 | 0.23 |
| 2002 | 261 | #876 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 288 | #815 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 329 | #708 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 320 | #711 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 313 | #709 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 288 | #743 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 295 | #716 | 0.17 |
| 1995 | 311 | #684 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 340 | #641 | 0.19 |
| 1993 | 340 | #656 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 302 | #711 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 307 | #695 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 289 | #723 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 239 | #797 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 232 | #799 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 164 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 153 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 172 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 136 | #1,043 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 165 | #912 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 172 | #890 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 195 | #817 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 170 | #896 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 159 | #928 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 151 | #938 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 136 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 146 | #907 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 120 | #1,011 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 125 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 128 | #946 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 124 | #977 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 115 | #1,054 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 94 | #1,206 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 90 | #1,181 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,289 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,296 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 76 | #1,237 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,392 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 65 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 71 | #1,309 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,473 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,769 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,460 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,900 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,118 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,059 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,033 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,212 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 18 | #2,082 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,791 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,625 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,733 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,985 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,414 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,218 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,690 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,755 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 20 | #2,010 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,561 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,644 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,101 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,522 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,173 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,501 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,441 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rebeca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rebeca has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rebeca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rebeca, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 14,198 Americans ever recorded as Rebeca. The median Rebeca alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 23,561 people named Rebeca (23,527 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,381 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 104 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 658 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,720 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,720 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,330 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Rebeca born?
The states with the most babies named Rebeca are Texas, California and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 42 | #722 | 2.4× |
| California | 26 | #1,046 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,047 | 1.2× |
| New York | 11 | #1,296 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #856 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,181 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,313 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,272 | 0.1× |
| Utah | 5 | #811 | 0.1× |
Where Rebeca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rebeca is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rebeca with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 860,145 babies since 1880, Rebeca is the third most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 166 of their 1,359 babies (12%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rebeca
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rebeca and names like it
- Compare Rebeca and RebeccaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRebeca peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rebeca since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Rebeca: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Rebeca.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rebeca alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.