Rebecca — #341 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rebecca

The Social Security Administration has registered 755,083 babies named Rebecca between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rebecca currently holds the #341 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 16,737 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rebecca performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 137,291 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Rebecca shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 65,776 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Rebecca in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rebecca in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 755,083 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.