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Rebeccalynn vs Rebeka

American parents have registered 2,660 Rebekas since 1880, against 60 Rebeccalynns. Rebeka is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rebeccalynn against Rebeka, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rebeccalynn Rebeka

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rebeka has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1996, when Rebeccalynn had 20 and Rebeka had 86.

Side by side

  Rebeccalynn Rebeka
Total US births 602,660
Most in one year 2093
Babies in 2025 under 513
Estimated living today 602,600
Median age today 2828
Peak year 19961991
Best rank 4,883rd girls1,619th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,885th
First recorded 19961957
Girls / boys 60 / 02,660 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rebeccalynn and Rebeka.