Rebecca
Rebecca is a female given name .
origin
The name comes from the Torah : Isaac's wife is called Rebekah ( Hebrew רבקה Rivkah ), which means 'the enticing one' or 'the one who creates connections'.
variants
- Becky (first name)
- Rebeca, Rebeccah, Rebecka
- Rebeka, Rebekah
- Rebekah
- Rivka, Rivkah, Rivia, Rivkele
Name days
- March 23 ( Rebekka Ar Rayès )
- August 30th (St. Rebecca)
Well-known namesake
Rebecca
- Rebecca Black (* 1997), American singer
- Rebecca Brandewyne (* 1955), American writer
- Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), British composer and violist
- Rebecca Ferguson (* 1986), British singer
- Rebecca Ferguson (born 1983), Swedish actress
- Rebecca Friedländer (1783–1850), writer
- Rebecca Ariane Givens , Canadian-Chinese model
- Rebecca Hall (born 1982), British actress
- Rebecca Harms (* 1956), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Rebecca Hohlbein (* 1977), German children's book and fantasy author
- Rebecca Horn (* 1944), German sculptor
- Rebecca Immanuel (* 1970), German actress
- Rebecca Marder (* 1995), French-American actress
- Rebecca Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1811-1858), German salonière
- Rebecca Miller (* 1962), American director and actress
- Rebecca Mir (* 1991), German model and presenter
- Rebecca De Mornay (* 1959), American actress, director and film producer
- Rebecca O'Brien (* 1957), British film producer
- Rebecca Parris (1951–2018), American jazz singer
- Rebecca Romijn (* 1972), American actress
- Rebecca Siemoneit-Barum (* 1977), German actress and entrepreneur
- Rebecca Trescher (* 1986), German jazz musician
- Rebecca West (1892–1983), British writer
Intermediate name
- Amon Rébecca Grâce Elloh (* 1994), Ivorian soccer player
- Ida Rebecca Guehai (* 1994), Ivorian soccer player
Rebeca
- Rebeca Wild (1939–2015), German educator and author
Rebecka
- Rebecka Dirichlet (1811-1858), German salonnière
- Rebecka Lazic (* 1994), Swedish volleyball player
- Rebecka Liljeberg (* 1981) is a Swedish actress and doctor
- Rebecka Törnqvist (* 1964), Swedish pop and jazz singer
Rebeka / Rebekah
- Rebekah Brooks (* 1968), British journalist
- Rebeka Dremelj (* 1980), Slovenian singer, fashion designer, actress and television presenter
- Rebekah Driscoll (* 1980), American composer
- Rebekah Johnson (* 1976), American actress and singer
- Rebekah Keat (* 1978), Australian triathlete
- Rebekah Kennedy (* 1984), American actress
- Rebeka Masarova (* 1999), Swiss-born tennis player, has been playing for Spain since 2018
- Rebeka Stolmár (* 1997), Hungarian tennis player
- Rebekah Stott (* 1993), New Zealand soccer player
Rebekah
- Rebekka Ackers (* 1990), German athlete
- Rebekka Ar Rayès (1832–1914), Catholic nun, Lebanese saint
- Rebekka Bakken (* 1970), Norwegian singer
- Rebekka Borsch (* 1976), German-Norwegian journalist and politician
- Rebekka Fleming (1944-2014), German actress
- Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir (* 1978), Icelandic photographer
- Rebekka Haase (* 1993), German athlete
- Rebekka Habermas (* 1959), German historian
- Rebekka Hartmann (* 1981), German violinist
- Rebekka Kadijk (* 1979), Dutch beach volleyball player
- Rebekka Knoll (* 1988), German writer and journalist
- Rebekka Kricheldorf (* 1974), German playwright
- Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (* 1971), German historian
- Rebekka asked Meir Tiktiner , a Jewish author who lived and worked in the 16th century (probably in Prague)
- Rebekka Reinhard (* 1972), German philosopher and author
Rivka
- Rivka Feldhay (* 1947), Israeli science historian
- Rivka Horwitz (1926–2007), Israeli philosopher
- Rivka Keren (* 1946), Israeli writer
- Rivka Zohar (* 1948), Israeli singer
Fictional people
- Rebecca (novel) , novel by Daphne du Maurier
- Rebecca (film) , first adaptation of this novel by Alfred Hitchcock
- Rebecca (musical) , based on the novel by Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze
- further adaptations of the novel
See also
- Rebekka (singer) , stage name of the German singer and guitarist Jutta Hirschfeld (* 1950)
- Crime scene: Rebecca , German TV crime thriller