Rebeca

Where Rebeca comes from

Rebeca hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,276 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1983
    Rebeca Linares born
    Spanish pornographic actress
  3. 1999
    Rebeca Andrade born
    Brazilian artistic gymnast
  4. 2003
    Peak, #633
    422 babies named Rebeca — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,205.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rebeca Andrade · Brazilian artistic gymnast, born 1999
  • Rebeca Linares · Spanish pornographic actress, born 1983
  • Rebeca Grynspan · Costa Rican politician, born 1955
  • Rebeca Gyumi · Lawyer, Activist (* 1986), born 1986
  • Rebeca Matte Bello · Chilean sculptor, 1875–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.