Rabecca
Feminine
Rabecca changes the first vowel of a very old name, and the woman it belongs to passes a test in her own story that almost nobody reads carefully enough to find impressive.
How old is the name Rabecca?
Rabecca first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Rabecca alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 800 people named Rabecca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rabecca most popular?
Rabecca peaked in 1973, reaching #2629 nationally. See the whole 1973 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Rivqah to Rabecca
The story of Rabecca
A servant is sent to find a wife and decides to let a test choose: he will ask a woman for water, and the one who offers to water his camels as well is the right one. Read quickly it sounds like a small courtesy. Ten camels after a long journey drink something like two hundred liters between them, drawn by hand from a well, one jar at a time, by a girl who has just met a stranger — it is an hour of heavy labor volunteered to somebody with no claim on her. The text does not comment. It simply says she did it, and then says she kept doing it until they had finished, which is the detail that gives the game away. The same couple get one other moment that the narrative almost throws away: a king looks out of a window and sees Isaac and Rebecca enjoying each other's company, and works out from that alone that they are married rather than brother and sister. It is the only glimpse of that kind anywhere in the book.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Nobody has established what Rebecca means. The readings offered — a tie, a snare, one who binds — rest on a guess about a word for tying cattle and have never been demonstrated. The altered vowel here changes nothing.
How the name formed
- Rivqah
- Rebecca
- Rabecca
Related forms: Rivka · Rebeca
Pronouncing Rabecca
ruh-BEK-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first vowel is unstressed, which is why it can be written with an a or an e.
Nicknames for Rabecca
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 199637 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2629reached in 1973
- Change vs 2014
- +20.0%6 in 2016, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Rabecca in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rivka in Hebrew — same name
- Rebeca in Spanish — same name
Rabeccas among us
people named Rabecca are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Rabecca sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The name is ancient, universally recognized and carried in every European language.
- It has several well-worn short forms that sound unlike each other.
- It is read correctly on sight in spite of the altered letter.
- Rebecca is the standard spelling and hers will be corrected to it.
- The altered vowel is invisible in speech, so she will spell it rather than say it.
- No meaning can honestly be handed to her.
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- How many Rabeccas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Rabecca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rabecca in 2025?
- Rabecca is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Rabecca will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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