Rebeckah — girls' name
652 babies named Rebeckah in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Rebeckah was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Rebeckah in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rebeckah
The Social Security Administration has registered 652 babies named Rebeckah between 1956 and 2015, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rebeckah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rebeckah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 193 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Rebeckah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rebeckah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rebeckah 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 652 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.
Rebeckah at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rebeckah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1956
- Peak year (1996)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 60 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
652 total births across 60 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 26 births in a single year.
Rebeckah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 193 births that decade — 30% of Rebeckah's all-time total
Rebeckah decade highlights
- Peak decade 193 births
- Runner-up 129 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Rebeckah's strongest decade
193 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Rebeckah by state
Where Rebeckah concentrates geographically — total births since 1956
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 24 | 3.7% |
24 of 652 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1956–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.