Rivka
Rivka was given to 464 girls in 2025, #629 among girls’ names; 10,022 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,840 Americans named Rivka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rivka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rivka mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rivka is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
From Hebrew רִבְקָה (rivká) or Yiddish רבֿקה (rivke). Doublet of Rebecca.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rivka?
#629 among girls’ names, 2025
Rivka rose from #862 in 2015 to #629 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.18 to 0.29 per 1,000.
464 babies in 2025, the peak
Rivka peaked in 2025, when 464 girls were given it, #629 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 398 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 464 | #629 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 398 | #707 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 384 | #733 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 353 | #799 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 375 | #762 | 0.23 |
| 2020 | 348 | #781 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 381 | #743 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 315 | #862 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 342 | #801 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 334 | #851 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 324 | #862 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 293 | #921 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 270 | #937 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 251 | #1,010 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 266 | #963 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 248 | #1,014 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 235 | #1,087 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 216 | #1,182 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 207 | #1,213 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 194 | #1,247 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 190 | #1,208 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 195 | #1,164 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 176 | #1,210 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 178 | #1,159 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,380 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,294 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 143 | #1,288 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,388 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 128 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 119 | #1,395 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,414 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,489 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 108 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,608 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 85 | #1,717 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 108 | #1,449 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,547 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 100 | #1,403 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,359 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,513 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 73 | #1,628 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 85 | #1,386 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 79 | #1,471 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,015 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,629 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,637 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,762 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 69 | #1,577 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,849 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,474 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,600 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,724 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,852 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,936 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,327 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,502 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,564 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 29 | #2,279 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,617 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,806 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,077 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,927 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,388 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,885 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,448 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,666 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,899 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,250 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,885 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rivka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rivka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rivka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rivka, and how old are they?
9,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,022 Americans ever recorded as Rivka. The median Rivka alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 6,916 people named Rivka (6,896 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,658 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 173 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 670 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,550 |
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 Rivka born?
The states with the most babies named Rivka are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 95% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 258 | #47 | 9.7× |
| New Jersey | 152 | #40 | 7.9× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,660 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,100 | 0.1× |
| California | 6 | #3,032 | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 6 | #533 | 0.1× |
Where Rivka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rivka is most over-represented in New York: since 1949 it was given 9.7 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 Rivka 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,623 babies since 1880, Rivka is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 464 of their 643 babies (72%), again the most given.
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 Rivka
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 Rivka and names like it
- Compare Rivka and RivkyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRivka peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rivka since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Rivka: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rivka.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rivka alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.