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Rebekah

Gender
Girl
Say it
re-BEK-a
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#1,690 for girls
US rank, 2025
#884 for girls

Rebekah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “to tie, bind”. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies) and 884th for girls in the US (302 babies).

What does Rebekah mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Rebecca

“to tie, bind”

The spelling used in the King James Bible for Rebekah, the wife of Isaac.

More on Wiktionary.

Is Rebekah a girl's or a boy's name?

Rebekah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK and 302 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Rebekah in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,690th among girls
Babies in 2025
18 about 1 in 15,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Rebekah, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 945th. Its busiest year was 1997, with 579 girls.

Half of all the girls named Rebekah in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2006. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

In 2025, 172 girls in the UK were given Rebekah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #297, up from #1,690 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.

In the England and Wales top 100 for girls, which the ONS has published every ten years since 1904: 1994 (#95).

1996Busiest: 579 in 19972025
Rebekah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#1,690
202416#1,881
202329#1,209
202214#2,052
202126#1,323
202040#945
201932#1,129
201854#786
201755#784
201655#778
201568#657
201482#568
201390#517
2012119#427
2011109#446
2010124#400
2009114#418
2008154#330
2007188#283
2006210#251
2005246#217
2004301#179
2003301#178
2002394#136
2001451#120
2000538#107
1999488#115
1998471#118
1997579#98
1996482#104

How popular is Rebekah in the US?

Rank in 2025
884th among girls
Babies in 2025
302 about 1 in 5,300 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 302 girls in the US were named Rebekah, making it the 884th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 772nd. Its busiest year was 1996, with 2,222 girls. It first appears in the records in 1883.

Half of all the girls named Rebekah in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,359 girls in the US were given Rebekah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #256, up from #884 for this spelling alone.

1883Busiest: 2,222 in 19962025
Rebekah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025302#884
2024308#875
2023254#1,001
2022289#937
2021331#834
2020352#772
2019399#715
2018415#700
2017501#602
2016527#584
2015606#518
2014628#496
2013664#459
2012714#438
2011720#434
2010795#404
2009891#362
2008947#352
20071,107#308
20061,227#267
20051,282#253
20041,389#235
20031,503#217
20021,571#210
20011,738#188
20001,896#173
19992,067#156
19982,030#155
19972,057#151
19962,222#146
19952,071#156
19942,159#152
19932,108#148
19922,106#145
19912,063#147
19902,044#149
19891,869#154
19881,696#168
19871,732#161
19861,835#153
19851,791#158
19841,803#157
19831,899#152
19822,059#143
19811,906#149
19801,729#162
19791,519#178
19781,343#193
19771,329#200
19761,187#207
19751,071#227
19741,023#250
1973763#305
1972539#389
1971505#419
1970375#518
1969344#532
1968273#580
1967285#559
1966258#588
1965239#632
1964217#703
1963191#743
1962213#707
1961187#761
1960194#727
1959202#704
1958197#700
1957208#689
1956210#660
1955202#657
1954197#654
1953189#651
1952173#673
1951146#721
195098#894
194996#902
194883#954
194788#941
194668#1,022
194554#1,060
194441#1,235
194344#1,211
194239#1,278
194163#924
194040#1,150
193925#1,514
193826#1,475
193721#1,679
193625#1,480
193525#1,483
193423#1,556
193326#1,442
193221#1,684
193112#2,425
193018#1,933
192913#2,436
192815#2,283
192717#2,168
192619#1,996
192527#1,608
192418#2,136
192320#1,944
192225#1,682
192118#2,120
192019#2,015
191925#1,604
191833#1,333
191719#1,847
191620#1,739
191527#1,367
191418#1,541
191319#1,308
19127#2,359
19119#1,656
19106#2,140
19090–
19085#2,101
19077#1,638
19068#1,416
19050–
19040–
19030–
19027#1,438
19015#1,678
19000–
18998#1,180
18986#1,501
18970–
18966#1,416
18957#1,299
18949#1,061
18935#1,437
18928#1,085
18916#1,213
18900–
18890–
18880–
18875#1,147
18860–
18850–
18846#930
18837#754

Nicknames for Rebekah

Names like Rebekah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Hannah, Jessica, Abigail, Sarah, Molly, Leah, Francesca, Emily, Delilah, Naomi, Jasmine, Bethany

Other spellings of Rebekah

Rebecca, Rebeca, Rebeka, Rebecka

Names related to Rebekah

Rebekka, Rebbeca, Rebekkah, Rebeckah, Rebeccah

More Hebrew names

Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias

Every Hebrew name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Rebekah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rebekah, updated 20 October 2026.