Spellings
Rebekah or Rebeca?
In the US in 2025, 65% of babies in this name family were spelled Rebekah and 35% Rebeca. Same name, slightly different impression: here are the figures for each spelling.
Ten years ago
Rebekah already led in 2015, with 77% of the family's births; it has 65% in 2025. All spellings together, the family went from 785 to 468 births (−40%).
| Spelling | 2015 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebekah | 606 | 302 | −50% |
| Rebeca | 179 | 166 | −7% |
How they sound
All of these spellings are said the same way: /rəˈbɛkə/ (ruh-BEK-uh). So the choice is about how it looks: it is the spelling people will read on a birth card, a name tag or an email address, and the one your child will sometimes spell out.
In France
In France in 2025: Rebekah 5 births and Rebeca 10 births.
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Insee (France), 2025 data. How we calculate these figures.
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