Rebekah - Meaning of Rebekah

What does Rebekah mean?

[ 3 syll. re-be-kah, reb-ek-ah ] The baby girl name Rebekah is pronounced Rah-BEHK-ah in English †. Rebekah's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English, Polish, and Yiddish. Rebekah is a variant spelling of Rebecca (English, French, and Italian).

See also the related categories, yiddish, english, hebrew, and polish.

Rebekah is an all-time favorite. Currently it is still somewhat popular as a baby girl name, but to a lesser degree than it was previously. The name's popularity rose from the 1940s up to the 1990s. At the modest height of its usage in 1996, 0.116% of baby girls were given the name Rebekah. It had a ranking of #146 then. The baby name has seen a drop in popularity since then. In 2018, it ranked at #704 with a usage of 0.022%. Within the family of girl names directly linked to Rebekah, Rebecca was the most regularly used. It was more commonly used than Rebekah by 4 times in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Rebekah include Rebecca, Rebeccah, Rebeccka, Rebecha, Rebeckah, Rafelle, Rebecky, Rezepha, Rezephah, Rozafa, Rubea, Rebeccea, Rebeckia, Rezephia, Rezephiah, Rafah, Rhizpa, and Rhizpah.

† Pronunciation for Rebekah: R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)"



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