Rebeca
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rebeca is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as Rebekah (biblical character).
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 279as Rebecca
- ILIsrael≈1 in 297as רבקה
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rebeca itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #139 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 649 (measured from records)
- 1 in 853 (inferred from the name graph)
645,350 named Rebecca, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rebecca in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more and רבקה in IL Israel, RO Romania.
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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Rebecca or Rebekah
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rebeca is read(measured from records)
Rebeca is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
Rebekah (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hebreo Rivká, 'lazo, nudo corredizo'; esposa de Isaac.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese14%
- English10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rebeca in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rebeca 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 | #74 | 645,350as Rebecca | 1 in 515 | 645K | Rebecca | 649 |
| NG Nigeria | #125 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 997 | — | Rebecca | 109 |
| GB United Kingdom | #55 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 346 | 8 | Rebecca | 405 |
| BR Brazil | #444 | 160,693 | 1 in 1.3K | 161K | Rebeca | 179 |
| PH Philippines | #150 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 838 | — | Rebecca | 124 |
| AU Australia | #31 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 279 | 97 | Rebecca | 334 |
| RO Romania | #46 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 505 | — | רבקה | 47 |
| IL Israel | #16 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 297 | 158 | רבקה | 91 |
| NZ New Zealand | #53 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 396 | 11 | Rebecca | 184 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,976 | 1 in 853 | 6K | — | 2 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rebeca is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Lazo corredizo, trampa, atadura
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Catalan, cardigan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rebeca Iturbideb. 1924MXMexican actress (1924–2003)
- Rebeca Grynspan Mayufisb. 1955CRCosta Rican politician
- Rebeca Manríquezb. 1959MXMexican actress and voice actress
- Rebeca Arthurb. 1960USAmerican actress
- María Rebecab. 1970MXMexican actress
- Rebeca Escribensb. 1977PEPeruvian actress
- Rebeca Linaresb. 1983ESSpanish pornographic actress
- Rebeca Gyumib. 1986TZLawyer, Activist (* 1986)
- Rebeca Andradeb. 1999BRBrazilian artistic gymnast
- Rebeca del Fresnoactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 161K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 160K | #209 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 92K | #499 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 30K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24K | #1,437 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6K | #119 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 856 | #209 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 166 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34 | #1,437 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2020 | 5 | #281 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2019 | 5 | #560 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Rebeca come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Rebecca or Rebekah Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rebeca have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 645 thousand people named Rebecca, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rebeca most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rebeca is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 853 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Rebeca mean?
- In Spanish, Rebekah (biblical character)
- Is Rebeca a male or female name?
- Rebeca 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.
- What are other forms of the name Rebeca?
- In the etymology graph, Rebecca, Becky and Rebekah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Rebeca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 160,693 people named Rebeca in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Rebeca compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rebeca is the 74th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rebecaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rebeca” — the 74th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.