Rivka
Just 84 Polish women carry it, and no girls received it last year: most Poles have never met a Rivka. The name comes from Hebrew, with the sense of "to tie, to bind".
Rivka Pronunciation
What Rivka means
Where Rivka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rivka is Hebrew, and it reaches back to the book of Genesis. There it names a matriarch, the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau, the woman that Western Bibles call Rebecca. Jewish families have kept the Hebrew form intact.
The name is tied to a root that speaks of binding and fastening. Some readers hear in it a rope pulled tight, a knot that will not slip. Scholars still argue over the precise source, so the link between Rivka and "to bind" is best told as an old and durable association rather than a settled fact. The Polish gloss holds two senses at once: związana, bound, and urzekająca, captivating.
Rivka has no diminutive here, no cross-gender twin, no softened Polish ending. It arrives whole. On a class register it stands apart from the Rebeka spelled the local way, holding its Hebrew shape and its meaning of tying fast.
How many people are named Rivka
1 in 268379 women in Poland is named Rivka. 84 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3872 among female names.
Rivka as a middle name
Rivka is a first name for 84 women in Poland and a middle name for another 68, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 818th, between Lubomiła (68) and Sharon (68).
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