# Rebekah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rebekah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “enchantingly beautiful”, “captivating”, “snare” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 75,915 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 119 / 75,796 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,413, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew רִבְקָה (Riḇqāh, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).

## What it means

Rebekah is grouped under beauty.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 720 | 434 |
| 2012 | 714 | 439 |
| 2013 | 664 | 463 |
| 2014 | 628 | 497 |
| 2015 | 606 | 519 |
| 2016 | 527 | 584 |
| 2017 | 501 | 604 |
| 2018 | 415 | 703 |
| 2019 | 399 | 716 |
| 2020 | 352 | 773 |
| 2021 | 331 | 834 |
| 2022 | 289 | 939 |
| 2023 | 254 | 1,003 |
| 2024 | 308 | 877 |
| 2025 | 302 | 884 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | 4,525 |
| 1976 | 6 | 5,458 |
| 1978 | 11 | 3,559 |
| 1980 | 10 | 4,063 |
| 1981 | 8 | 4,860 |
| 1982 | 8 | 4,908 |
| 1983 | 7 | 5,349 |
| 1984 | 11 | 3,879 |
| 1985 | 6 | 6,351 |
| 1986 | 8 | 5,230 |
| 1987 | 8 | 5,341 |
| 1988 | 5 | 8,241 |
| 1989 | 12 | 4,467 |
| 1990 | 7 | 7,002 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,805 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 583 |
| 2012 | 84 | 514 |
| 2013 | 60 | 663 |
| 2014 | 50 | 779 |
| 2015 | 42 | 871 |
| 2016 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2017 | 40 | 933 |
| 2018 | 34 | 1,035 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1,349 |
| 2020 | 28 | 1,164 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,785 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,948 |
| 2023 | 22 | 1,410 |
| 2024 | 16 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | 18 | 1,639 |

## People named Rebekah

- Rebekah Brooks, English journalist
- Rebekah Johnson, American actress
- Rebekah A. Mercer, American political donor (1973-)
- Rebekah Del Rio, American musician (1967–2025)
- Rebekah D. Jones, American data scientist, geographer, and activist
- Rebekah Kochan, American actress
- Rebekah Harkness, American artist, composer, philanthropist, and founder of the Harkness Ballet (1915-1982)
- Rebekah Dawson, American astrophysicist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.