first name
REBECA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 23,561 people named Rebeca, 83.4% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 13.6% as White and 1.3% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Rebeca peaked in 2003, when 422 babies got the name.
At least 14,198 babies have been given the name since 1888. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Rebeca by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,289. The largest share of babies named Rebeca, 33%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Rebeca is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rebeca has been most common in Texas (3.6×), California (3.4×), and Arizona (2.3×), and least common in Ohio (0.06×).
10,983 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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