Rebecca Girl
How popular is Rebecca?
#349 girl name in 2025
872 baby girls were named Rebecca in the US in 2025, making it the 349th most popular girl name.
Rebecca popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #349 for girls (▼ 9 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 872 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-50% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #188 in 2015, #248 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1981 (16,737 girls) |
| Highest rank | #10 in 1973 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Rebecca counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Rebecca family of names ranked #247 for girls in 2025 (#236 the year before), with 1,359 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Rebecca is most popular
Babies named Rebecca per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Pennsylvania: 1.1 per 1,000 (261 girls)
- Massachusetts: 1.1 per 1,000 (127 girls)
- New Jersey: 1.0 per 1,000 (184 girls)
- Utah: 0.9 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Indiana: 0.9 per 1,000 (132 girls)
Rebecca by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,849 | #92 |
| 1890s | 3,660 | #107 |
| 1900s | 4,052 | #125 |
| 1910s | 9,474 | #144 |
| 1920s | 12,281 | #170 |
| 1930s | 12,615 | #134 |
| 1940s | 45,313 | #40 |
| 1950s | 115,690 | #24 |
| 1960s | 99,462 | #28 |
| 1970s | 137,285 | #10 |
| 1980s | 136,248 | #12 |
| 1990s | 109,721 | #20 |
| 2000s | 43,741 | #39 |
| 2010s | 17,488 | #134 |
| 2020s | 6,113 | #248 |
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Questions
- Is Rebecca a boy or girl name?
- Rebecca is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Rebecca were girls.
- How popular is the name Rebecca?
- 872 baby girls were named Rebecca in the US in 2025, making it the 349th most popular girl name.
- When was Rebecca most popular?
- Rebecca peaked in 1981, when 16,737 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #10, held for 2 years starting in 1973.
- How many people are named Rebecca?
- 758,106 babies have been named Rebecca in the US since 1880. We estimate about 654,225 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 48.
- Where is Rebecca most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Rebecca was most common in Pennsylvania, at 1.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.