Rebécca
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rebécca is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 40th most common given name. Recorded meaning: The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).
- USUnited States1 in 515(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 16K
- SESweden1 in 635
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- 1 in 515 (inferred from the name graph)
645,350 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rebecca in US United States, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).
Cited for this meaning 8
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rebécca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 645,350 | 1 in 515 | 645K | Rebecca | 338 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,076 | 1 in 635 | 16K | Rebecca | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 12,952 | 1 in 16K | 13K | Rebecca | 139 |
| DK Denmark | — | 3,615 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.6K | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 2,460 | 1 in 2.2K | 8.2K | — | 24 |
| GY Guyana | — | 445 | 1 in 1.7K | 445 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #40 | — | — | — | Rebecca | 4 |
645,350 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rebécca mean, and where does it come from?
- The Vulgate (Latin) form of biblical Rebekah, from Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Irish first names and 6 other sources.
- Is Rebécca a male or female name?
- Rebécca is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Rebécca have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 645 thousand people named Rebécca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rebecca.
- Where is Rebécca most common?
- Rebécca is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 515 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rebécca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 645,350 people named Rebécca in 2020, about 1 in 515 residents.
- How common is Rebécca compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Rebécca is the 40th most common given name of 878 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reb%C3%A9ccaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rebécca” — the 40th most common given name in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.