Rivkah
Rivkah was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,150 among girls’ names; 1,224 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Rivkah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rivkah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rivkah?
#4,150 among girls’ names, 2025
Rivkah rose from #4,381 in 2015 to #4,150 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 18.5 to 21.8 per million.
45 babies in 2023, the peak
Rivkah peaked in 2023, when 45 girls were given it, #3,512 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,150 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,544 | 19.1 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,512 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,357 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,580 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,976 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,422 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,223 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,900 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,333 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,381 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,632 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,614 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,081 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,514 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,943 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,856 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,737 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,195 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,300 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,078 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,176 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,749 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,727 | 14.5 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,017 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,755 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,849 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,531 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,482 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,428 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,170 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,983 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,871 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,910 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,499 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,480 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,630 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,171 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,020 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,855 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,242 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,953 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,423 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,297 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,503 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,471 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,794 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,865 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,225 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,943 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,417 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,120 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,167 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,001 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,089 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,769 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,447 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,404 | 2.6 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,103 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rivkah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rivkah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rivkah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rivkah, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,224 Americans ever recorded as Rivkah. The median Rivkah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 935 people named Rivkah (935 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,014 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 269 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 417 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 406 |
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 Rivkah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,223 | 7.9× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,014 | 2.9× |
Where Rivkah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rivkah is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 7.9 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 Rivkah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rivkah?
Rivkah is a less common spelling of Rivka: SSA has recorded 1,224 Rivkah and 10,022 Rivka since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,623 babies since 1880, Rivkah is the third most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 643 babies (5.4%), again the third 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 Rivkah
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 Rivkah and names like it
- Compare Rivkah and RivkaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRivkah peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rivkah since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Rivkah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rivkah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.