Rebeckah
Rebeckah was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 652 Americans have been recorded with it between 1956 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rebeckah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rebeckah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,536, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1996, the peak
Rebeckah peaked in 1996, when 26 girls were given it, #4,153 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,536 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,105 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,112 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,589 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,952 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,118 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,223 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,637 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,434 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,338 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 16 | #7,415 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,762 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,492 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,356 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,234 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,641 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,541 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,301 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,779 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,153 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,626 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,973 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,529 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,931 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,949 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,473 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,551 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,796 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,545 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,387 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,817 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,646 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,727 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,135 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,480 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,463 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,177 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,202 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,859 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,830 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,970 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,114 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,296 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,254 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,038 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,436 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,092 | 4.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,383 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,277 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,393 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,995 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,819 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,679 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rebeckah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rebeckah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rebeckah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rebeckah, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Rebeckah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 659 people named Rebeckah (658 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 636 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rebeckah?
Rebeckah is a less common spelling of Rebecca: SSA has recorded 652 Rebeckah and 758,106 Rebecca since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 858,496 babies since 1880, Rebeckah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,359 babies recorded by SSA was a Rebeckah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rebeckah
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 Rebeckah and names like it
- Compare Rebeckah and RebeccaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRebeckah peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rebeckah since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Rebeckah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rebeckah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.