Rebekkah — girls' name
1,585 babies named Rebekkah in U.S. Social Security records since 1956, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Rebekkah was born in this single decade.
77 babies were named Rebekkah in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rebekkah
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,585 babies named Rebekkah between 1956 and 2021, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rebekkah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 77 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rebekkah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 566 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Rebekkah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 94 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Rebekkah in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rebekkah 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 1,585 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.
Rebekkah at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rebekkah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1956
- Peak year (1993)
- 77
- Annual births at peak — across 66 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
1,585 total births across 66 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 77 births in a single year.
Rebekkah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 566 births that decade — 36% of Rebekkah's all-time total
Rebekkah decade highlights
- Peak decade 566 births
- Runner-up 338 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Rebekkah's strongest decade
566 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Rebekkah by state
Where Rebekkah concentrates geographically — total births since 1956
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 94 | 5.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 59 | 3.7% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 21 | 1.3% |
| #4 | New York | | 17 | 1.1% |
| #5 | Florida | | 6 | 0.4% |
| #6 | Illinois | | 6 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Arizona | | 5 | 0.3% |
94 of 1,585 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.9% of nationwide
- Texas 3.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.3% of nationwide
- New York 1.1% of nationwide
- Florida 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.9% 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, 1956–2021 (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.