Given name
Rebeccah
“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”
Rebeccah is a feminine given name.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rebeccah is a form of Rebecca. Rebecca goes back to Hebrew רִבְקָה (Rivka), meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rebeccah is a variant of Rebecca. Rebecca has been associated with Latin and Hebrew naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Rebeccah is a variant of Rebecca. The history of Rebecca gives this family its wider story. Rebecca has a place in biblical naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Rebeccah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,571
- 0 boys · 1,571 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 186 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 186 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,513 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rebeccah’s family of names
Rebeccah has a related form in Rebecca. In English usage, Rebeccah has a related form in Rebekah. In Welsh usage, Rebeccah has a conventional equivalent in the German form Rebekka.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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