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Rebekka

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latin spelling of Ρεβεκκα (Rebekka), a Greek form of the Hebrew name רִבְקָה (Rivqah, Ribhqah), probably a name with Aramaic roots of uncertain meaning. Some proposals include:

1) 'snare' [1] [2]

2) 'bound' [3]

3) 'to entrap, entrapping' [1] [4]

4) 'heifer' [3] [5] [6]

5) 'feed up' [7]

6) From Akkadian rabāka = 'to be gentle' [7]

7) 'cattle stall' [8] [9]

8) 'cow' [8]

Related Names

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Rebecca ♀
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Rebecha ♀
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Rebecka ♀
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Rebeka ♀
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Rebekah ♀
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Rebekka ♀
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Rebekke ♀
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Repekka ♀
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Reppa ♀
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Rubekur ♂
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 Faroese

See also Bekka, Reeta, Rípíka

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rebekkuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Rebekkudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rebekka
Genitive: Rebekkas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Rebekka
Accusative: Rebekku
Dative: Rebekku
Genitive: Rebekku
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rebekka
Genitive: Rebekan
Partitive: Rebekkaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rebekka
Accusative: Rebekku
Dative: Rebekku
Genitive: Rebekku
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rebekka
Genitive: Rebekkas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rebekka
Genitive: Rebekkas

Name Days

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

1 October

Finland Finland

17 May

Norway Norway

1 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 24 people were named Rebekka (percentage of first or only given name: 33 %) [12]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[14]
1656
n.a.
 1656
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[15]
n.a.
 2590
n.a.
 2590 0 0
Iceland Iceland[16]
446 499
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[17]
67 256
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[18]
96 189 96 189 0 0
Norway Norway[19]
2139
n.a.
 2139
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Rebekka (f) Sources: [18][14][19][15]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Rebekka (f) Sources: [20]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Rebekka (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. ↑ Mike Campbell: Behind the name http://www.behindthename.com
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  9. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  10. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  11. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  13. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  16. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  17. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  20. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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