Rebekah

What Rebekah means

Means “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”

From Hebrew רִבְקָה (Riḇqāh, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Rebekah” (revision 93542535), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Rebekah?

US: Falling: down from #518 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #871 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1996, when 2,222 girls got the name (#146 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 5,322 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,071 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (1.77 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.7 per 1,000 girls), PA (0.62 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Rebekah is #884 in the US and #1639 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Rebekah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Rebeca166 US · 27 E&W
• Rebeka13 US · 9 E&W
• Rebecka6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Rebekah

Girls

• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025
• Jessica#665possibly “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe…^*
• Rachel#250“ewe”^*
• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Zachary#216“Yahweh has remembered”^*
• Joseph#29“(God) shall add”^*
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Matthew#32“gift of the Lord”^*
• Andrew#73“manly”^*
• Joshua#66“to save”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Rebekah’s. Rank is US 2025.