Where the spelling 리베카 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 리베카 for Rebecca.
People in the list with this given name:
- 클러프, 리베카 — Clough, Rebecca
- 스클루트, 리베카 — Skloot, Rebecca L.
- 라이트, 리베카 — Wright, Rebecca
…and 1 more in the list.
Sound by sound
Re리be베cca카
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
- The official list spells Rebecca as 리베카, although the general rule gives 러베카.
What Rebecca means
Rebecca by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 290, 67,433 babies (99.9% girls, 0.1% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 리베카: 4.
Korean names for Rebecca
These are the converter’s results for Rebecca as a girl’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
김리아Kim RiaGirl’s name · 62% sound match
김리나Kim RinaGirl’s name · 62% sound match
김유리Kim YuriGirl’s name · 57% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics