Rebeca
#1,339 for girls in 2025, 166 births · Last seen for boys in 1986 at #6,721
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 422 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,193since 1888
Rebeca over time
Rank among girls' names. Rebeca has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,339 | 166 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,264 | 184 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,292 | 177 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,288 | 184 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,469 | 146 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,241 | 183 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,340 | 170 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,292 | 176 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,379 | 167 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,164 | 216 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,326 | 179 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,270 | 189 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,152 | 208 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,136 | 216 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,120 | 219 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,205 | 201 | — | |
| 2009 | #945 | 282 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,022 | 256 | — | |
| 2007 | #957 | 284 | — | |
| 2006 | #851 | 315 | — | |
| 2005 | #796 | 326 | — | |
| 2004 | #735 | 359 | — | |
| 2003 | #633 | 422 | — | |
| 2002 | #875 | 261 | — | |
| 2001 | #815 | 288 | — | |
| 2000 | #707 | 329 | — | |
| 1999 | #708 | 320 | — | |
| 1998 | #708 | 313 | — | |
| 1997 | #740 | 288 | — | |
| 1996 | #715 | 295 | — | |
| 1995 | #684 | 311 | — | |
| 1994 | #640 | 340 | — | |
| 1993 | #654 | 340 | — | |
| 1992 | #711 | 302 | — | |
| 1991 | #695 | 307 | — | |
| 1990 | #722 | 289 | — | |
| 1989 | #795 | 239 | — | |
| 1988 | #797 | 232 | — | |
| 1987 | #966 | 164 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,005 | 153 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #919 | 172 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,040 | 136 | — | |
| 1983 | #910 | 165 | — | |
| 1982 | #890 | 172 | — | |
| 1981 | #816 | 195 | — | |
| 1980 | #893 | 170 | — | |
| 1979 | #923 | 159 | — | |
| 1978 | #936 | 151 | — | |
| 1977 | #995 | 136 | — | |
| 1976 | #903 | 146 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,007 | 120 | — | |
| 1974 | #979 | 125 | — | |
| 1973 | #943 | 128 | — | |
| 1972 | #972 | 124 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,047 | 115 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,201 | 94 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,176 | 90 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,279 | 74 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,281 | 71 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,232 | 76 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,350 | 66 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,383 | 66 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,241 | 78 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,376 | 65 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,435 | 60 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,301 | 71 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,466 | 54 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,630 | 43 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,628 | 44 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,693 | 39 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,641 | 39 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,702 | 36 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,622 | 37 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,746 | 32 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,450 | 42 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,871 | 26 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,069 | 22 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,008 | 23 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,993 | 24 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,153 | 19 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,993 | 18 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,027 | 18 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,151 | 17 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,706 | 24 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,900 | 18 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,585 | 23 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,447 | 12 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,691 | 20 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,917 | 17 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,834 | 18 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,606 | 22 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,346 | 30 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,394 | 28 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,320 | 33 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,282 | 34 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,210 | 40 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,728 | 24 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,623 | 26 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,647 | 26 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,723 | 25 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,944 | 20 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,836 | 22 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,120 | 18 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,801 | 21 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,316 | 14 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 | — | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 | — | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | #1,439 | 9 | — | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | #1,332 | 5 | — | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Rebeca! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1903, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rebeca
- 75 spots since 2024 (#1,264 → #1,339)
- 98 spots since 2020 (#1,241 → #1,339)
- 13 spots since 2015 (#1,326 → #1,339)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 2003 (#875 → #633)
- Biggest drop: 260 spots in 2010 (#945 → #1,205)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 2003 at #633 (422 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1987–2007
- Highest: 1 in 4,330 girls born in 2003 were named Rebeca (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,682 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 22.0% of all girls named Rebeca (3,122) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,276 (1888) | #1,276 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,332 (1891) | #1,332 |
| 1900s | 20 | #1,439 (1908) | #1,676 |
| 1910s | 84 | #1,801 (1919) | #2,267 |
| 1920s | 249 | #1,210 (1928) | #1,758 |
| 1930s | 213 | #1,320 (1930) | #1,788 |
| 1940s | 204 | #1,706 (1942) | #1,975 |
| 1950s | 392 | #1,450 (1951) | #1,645 |
| 1960s | 717 | #1,176 (1969) | #1,305 |
| 1970s | 1,298 | #903 (1976) | #991 |
| 1980s | 1,798 | #795 (1989) | #903 |
| 1990s | 3,105 | #640 (1994) | #698 |
| 2000s | 3,122 | #633 (2003) | #834 |
| 2010s | 1,941 | #1,120 (2011) | #1,238 |
| 2020s | 1,040 | #1,241 (2020) | #1,316 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rebeca in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 9,767 of them was named Rebeca, which outranked 92.7% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).