girls:
75.2k births since 1883
#449 (92nd percentile)
boys:
119 births since 1974
#4467 (3rd percentile)
overall:
75.3k births since 1883
#831 (89th percentile)
The name Rebekah is the #831 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75,280 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 89.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #449 (92.2% percentile) for all time with 75,161 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,467 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 1974.
Rebekah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Rebekah is available in 130 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (130 years for girls and 15 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rebekah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rebekah reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 83.5% percentile (ranked #143) with 1,051 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 1,159 births per million (ranked 83.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rebekah ranks #707 for girls (25.4% percentile) with 142 births per million, which is 12.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rebekah reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #746) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rebekah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Rebekah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Rebekah is pronounced as rih-BEH-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-BEH-kuh, at 36.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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