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Rebekah

Rebekah means "Hebrew variant of Rebecca" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Since 1900, roughly 73,124 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.

HebrewHebrew variant of Rebecca
EtymologyMeaning "to bind, tie" or "captivating"
Births by decade
1900s
32
1910s
183
1920s
191
1930s
222
1940s
616
1950s
1,822
1960s
2,402
1970s
9,677
1980s
18,396
1990s
20,930
2000s
13,528
2010s
5,125
Peaked in the 1990s · 73,124 total U.S. births since 1900