How Many People Are Named Rebeccah?

1,499

people named Rebeccah are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 228,008 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,571 babies named Rebeccah in Social Security records from 1951 to 2017, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,121

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,537

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Peak Year

1991

186 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Rare)
Pronunciation: rə-BEK-ə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of REBECCA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Rebeccah in English. Counting Rebeccah and these spellings together, about 723,516 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Rebeccah in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Rebeccah alive today is about 40 years old, and 71% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 31 and 47 in 2025.

Under 30 294
19.6%
30 to 59 1,062
70.9%
60 and over 142
9.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Rebeccah first appears in the records in 1951 and was given most often in 1991, to 186 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2017.

Babies given the name each year, 1951 to 2017

🏆 Rank History

Rebeccah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,001, in 1991.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#1,001 (1991)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,422 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Rebeccah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Rebeccah were born in California than in any other state: about 74 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rebeccah was given about 2 times as often in California.

California 74
New York 34
Pennsylvania 26
Florida 22
Texas 17
New Jersey 12
Illinois 7
Missouri 7
Oregon 6
Ohio 6
Arizona 6
Massachusetts 6
Georgia 6
Washington 6
Minnesota 5
Michigan 5

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