Rebeka
Rebeka was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,240 among girls’ names; 2,660 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,600 Americans named Rebeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rebeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rebeka mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Rebeka is “a female given name, equivalent to English Rebecca”
Learned borrowing from Latin Rebecca, from Biblical Hebrew רִבְקָה.
/rɛˈbɛ.ka/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rebeka?
#8,240 among girls’ names, 2025
Rebeka fell from #4,694 in 2015 to #8,240 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 8.1 per million.
93 babies in 1991, the peak
Rebeka peaked in 1991, when 93 girls were given it, #1,617 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,240 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,929 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,866 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,933 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,188 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,316 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,952 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,422 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,236 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,503 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,694 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,161 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,066 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,902 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,825 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,193 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,927 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,913 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,816 | 33.8 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,599 | 36.8 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,332 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,577 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,220 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,170 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,477 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,204 | 39.6 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,030 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,839 | 47.5 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,874 | 45.4 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,745 | 49.1 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,891 | 42.1 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,735 | 47.6 |
| 1993 | 93 | #1,634 | 51.4 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,654 | 49.9 |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,617 | 49.6 |
| 1990 | 87 | #1,694 | 45.8 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,953 | 35.8 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,117 | 30.9 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,040 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,407 | 24.5 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,636 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,177 | 27.3 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,343 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,244 | 26.6 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,399 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,981 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,711 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,504 | 22.8 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,822 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,629 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,728 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,528 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,297 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,038 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,071 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,699 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,363 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,051 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,578 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,384 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,554 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,385 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,398 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,079 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,946 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,820 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rebeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rebeka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rebeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rebeka, and how old are they?
2,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,660 Americans ever recorded as Rebeka. The median Rebeka alive today is 29 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,860 people named Rebeka (2,859 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,543 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rebeka rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 256 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 253 |
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 Rebeka born?
The states with the most babies named Rebeka are California, Texas and Florida, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 337 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 277 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 74 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rebeka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rebeka is most over-represented in Texas: since 1957 it was given 1.2 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 Rebeka 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 858,772 babies since 1880, Rebeka is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,359 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Rebeka
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 Rebeka and names like it
- Compare Rebeka and RebeccaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRebeka peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rebeka since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Rebeka: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Rebeka.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rebeka alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.