Rebeccah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Rebeccah

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,571 babies named Rebeccah between 1951 and 2017, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rebeccah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 186 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rebeccah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 552 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Rebeccah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 76 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Rebeccah in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rebeccah 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 1,571 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.