Rivka
#628 for girls in 2025, 464 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 464 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,022since 1949
Rivka over time
Rank among girls' names. Rivka has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #628 | 464 |
| 2024 | #706 | 398 |
| 2023 | #731 | 384 |
| 2022 | #799 | 353 |
| 2021 | #762 | 375 |
| 2020 | #781 | 348 |
| 2019 | #743 | 381 |
| 2018 | #860 | 315 |
| 2017 | #799 | 342 |
| 2016 | #848 | 334 |
| 2015 | #861 | 324 |
| 2014 | #919 | 293 |
| 2013 | #936 | 270 |
| 2012 | #1,009 | 251 |
| 2011 | #961 | 266 |
| 2010 | #1,014 | 248 |
| 2009 | #1,085 | 235 |
| 2008 | #1,182 | 216 |
| 2007 | #1,212 | 207 |
| 2006 | #1,240 | 194 |
| 2005 | #1,203 | 190 |
| 2004 | #1,162 | 195 |
| 2003 | #1,209 | 176 |
| 2002 | #1,156 | 178 |
| 2001 | #1,378 | 138 |
| 2000 | #1,291 | 149 |
| 1999 | #1,283 | 143 |
| 1998 | #1,382 | 124 |
| 1997 | #1,343 | 128 |
| 1996 | #1,393 | 119 |
| 1995 | #1,410 | 116 |
| 1994 | #1,487 | 106 |
| 1993 | #1,471 | 108 |
| 1992 | #1,600 | 96 |
| 1991 | #1,710 | 85 |
| 1990 | #1,445 | 108 |
| 1989 | #1,540 | 92 |
| 1988 | #1,400 | 100 |
| 1987 | #1,349 | 101 |
| 1986 | #1,505 | 82 |
| 1985 | #1,621 | 73 |
| 1984 | #1,381 | 85 |
| 1983 | #1,463 | 79 |
| 1982 | #1,991 | 52 |
| 1981 | #1,615 | 72 |
| 1980 | #1,624 | 71 |
| 1979 | #1,753 | 62 |
| 1978 | #1,569 | 69 |
| 1977 | #1,832 | 55 |
| 1976 | #1,464 | 71 |
| 1975 | #1,586 | 62 |
| 1974 | #1,709 | 53 |
| 1973 | #1,832 | 46 |
| 1972 | #1,920 | 43 |
| 1971 | #2,296 | 34 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 |
| 1969 | #2,515 | 27 |
| 1968 | #2,246 | 29 |
| 1967 | #2,558 | 23 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #2,744 | 20 |
| 1964 | #3,000 | 18 |
| 1963 | #2,780 | 20 |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #2,699 | 16 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 |
| 1950 | #2,781 | 14 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rivka! It came in at #5,244, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rivka is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#68 · 1 in 353
- New York#81 · 1 in 447
- Maryland#788 · 1 in 3,879
- California#2,256 · 1 in 21,750
Best ever in a state: #35 in New Jersey, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #68 | 102 | 1 in 353 |
| New York | #81 | 197 | 1 in 447 |
| Maryland | #788 | 6 | 1 in 3,879 |
| California | #2,256 | 9 | 1 in 21,750 |
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See more about Rivka
- 78 spots since 2024 (#706 → #628)
- 153 spots since 2020 (#781 → #628)
- 233 spots since 2015 (#861 → #628)
- Biggest jump: 117 spots in 2019 (#860 → #743)
- Biggest drop: 61 spots in 2018 (#799 → #860)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2025 at #628 (464 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,464 girls born in 2025 were named Rivka (0.03%)
- 30.2% of all girls named Rivka (3,024) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,244 (1949) | #5,244 |
| 1950s | 121 | #2,699 (1953) | #3,440 |
| 1960s | 207 | #2,246 (1968) | #2,793 |
| 1970s | 525 | #1,464 (1976) | #1,841 |
| 1980s | 807 | #1,349 (1987) | #1,549 |
| 1990s | 1,133 | #1,283 (1999) | #1,452 |
| 2000s | 1,878 | #1,085 (2009) | #1,212 |
| 2010s | 3,024 | #743 (2019) | #895 |
| 2020s | 2,322 | #628 (2025) | #735 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rivka in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,048 of them was named Rivka, which outranked 95.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #794Rylan345
- #797Avalynn344
- #797Miah344
- #799Rivka342
- #799Angelique342
- #799Mavis342
- #799Scarlette342
- #803Ari341
- #803Romina341
- #805Jaycee340
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.