Rebekka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rebekah. (biblical character)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rebekka 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(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 Rebekka 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 13K (inferred from the name graph)
645,350 named Rebecca, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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 4 more, רבקה in IL Israel, RO Romania and Rebeca in BR Brazil.
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)
Rebekah. (biblical character)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rebekka 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 | 160,693as Rebeca | 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 |
| NL Netherlands | #545 | 1,370 | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Rebecca | 126 |
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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Rebekka 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.
In German, ) Rebecka: weibl. Vom. hebräi schen Ursprungs (hebr. ribqä, vielleicht zu hebr. baqar »Rind«). Nach der Bibel war
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Hebrew name, probably 'to tie, bind'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Pocahontasb. 1596USnot in their usual nameAmerican native woman
- Dolly Partonb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
- Rebecca De Mornayb. 1959USAmerican actress
- Rebecca Romijnb. 1972USAmerican actress and model (born 1972)
- Rebecca Maderb. 1977GBEnglish actress
- Rebecca Hallb. 1982GBEnglish actress and filmmaker (born 1982)
- Rebecca Fergusonb. 1983SESwedish actress (born 1983)
- Emily Kinneyb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer-songwriter
- Becky Hillb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer (born 1994)
- Rebecca Blackb. 1997USAmerican singer
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 62 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,539 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.4K | #1,049 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 698 | #2,596 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 58 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #60,128 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 25 | #56,141 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2008 | 5 | #572 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1985 | 4 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1998 | 3 | #351 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #7,539 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2002 | 2 | — |
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
- What does the name Rebekka mean, and where does it come from?
- Rebekah. (biblical character) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rebekka 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 Rebekka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rebekka is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Rebekka a male or female name?
- Rebekka 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 Rebekka?
- In the etymology graph, Rebecca, Becky and Rebeca are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Rebekka?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,370 people named Rebekka, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Rebekka compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rebekka 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/rebekkaThe 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, “Rebekka” — the 74th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.