Rebekka
Feminine · “possibly a tie or a knot”
This is the German and Scandinavian spelling, and it is closer to the Hebrew than the English one is. The consonant in the middle of the Hebrew name is a k; English writes it as a c because English took the name through Latin, which had no k to speak of. The German form went back to the source.
How old is the name Rebekka?
Rebekka first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Rebekka alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 2,000 people named Rebekka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rebekka most popular?
Rebekka peaked in 1997, reaching #1682 nationally. See the whole 1997 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From Rivqah to Rebekka
The story of Rebekka
She is the only one of the matriarchs who is given an answer directly. Pregnant, in pain and frightened by what is happening inside her, she goes to enquire — the text does not say of whom or where — and receives a reply in verse about two nations struggling and the elder serving the younger. No husband is involved, no intermediary, no priest. Every other major promise in the book is delivered to a man, often with a woman listening at a tent flap and laughing. Here a woman asks a question on her own account and gets a straight answer, and the whole subsequent plot runs on what she was told.
Meaningscholars disagree
possibly a tie or a knot
The Hebrew sense is genuinely unsettled and no proposal can be secured. What is certain is the consonant skeleton, which is what this spelling is following.
How the name formed
- Rivqah
- Rebekka
- Rebecca
Related forms: Rebekka · Rebekka · Rebekka · Rivka
Pronouncing Rebekka
ruh-BEK-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. German gives the first vowel a fuller value than English does, which reduces it to nothing.
Nicknames for Rebekka
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 199793 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1682reached in 1997
- Change vs 2022
- −37.5%5 in 2023, from 8
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.
Rebekka in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rebekka in German — same name
- Rebekka in Norwegian — same name
- Rebekka in Finnish — same name
- Rivka in Hebrew — same name
Rebekkas among us
people named Rebekka 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
Rebekka 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 spelling follows a real continental convention rather than improvising.
- It is closer to the original consonants than the English form.
- The short forms are numerous and cross several languages.
- In America the c spelling is standard and this will be corrected constantly.
- The meaning cannot honestly be given as settled.
- The doubled k reads as German to most people, which may or may not be wanted.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rebekkas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Rebekka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rebekka in 2025?
- Rebekka is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Rebekka will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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