Rivkah
Feminine
Rivkah is the Hebrew original of Rebecca, and Jewish tradition counts her among the four matriarchs — one of the names said at a naming.
How old is the name Rivkah?
Rivkah first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Rivkah alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,200 people named Rivkah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rivkah most popular?
Rivkah peaked in 2023, reaching #3476 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 591 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Rivkah
Rivkah is the second of the four matriarchs — Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah — and the Hebrew name has stayed in continuous Jewish use for three thousand years without a break, which very few names manage. English took Rebecca from the Greek. Rivkah is the transliteration used in observant communities and appears in American records chiefly in Orthodox and Hasidic families.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The name's derivation is genuinely unsettled. Proposals include a word for a tie or noose, one for a fattened animal, and a connection to joining or binding. The gloss captivating widely circulated is a later interpretation of one of these, not a translation.
Pronouncing Rivkah
RIV-kah
Two syllables, first stressed. Hebrew stresses the last, riv-KAH.
Nicknames for Rivkah
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
- 202345 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3476reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- +12.9%35 in 2025, from 31
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.
Rivkah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rivka in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Rebecca in English — same name
- Rivke in Yiddish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Rivkahs among us
people named Rivkah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Rivkah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Rivkah
- #4067
- Rivkah on the 2025 chart
- #517
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Rivkah went to 35 girls in 2025, but Rivka is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 499, which makes it the 517th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,550 places above the chart.
- Rivka464
- Rivkah35
About 1 girl in 3,221 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 45,922 for Rivkah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jassmine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Rivkah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jassmine climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jassmine's path sketches the road Rivkah is walking now.
Rivkah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Rivkah is headed
Rivkah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Rivkah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Rivkah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three thousand years of unbroken use behind it, which almost no name has.
- Rivky is a warm short form already in universal community use.
- Rebecca stands behind it as the familiar English form.
- The meaning is genuinely unknown, and the popular gloss is not a translation.
- The stress differs between the community and Israeli readings.
- Outside the community it will be read as a variant of Rebecca.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rivkahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Rivkah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Rivkah?
- Rivkah is one of 2 recorded spellings. Rivka is the more common one — 464 births in 2025 against 35 for Rivkah.
- How popular is the name Rivkah in 2025?
- Rivkah ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Rivkah?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Rivkah — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Rivkah with classmates?
- Rivkah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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