Rivka — #709 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rivka

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,554 babies named Rivka between 1949 and 2024, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rivka currently holds the #709 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 395 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rivka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,024 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Rivka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5,992 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Rivka in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rivka 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 9,554 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.