Entry № 8756 · Hebrew origin

Rivka Rivka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RIV-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"To bind (Rebecca biblical matriarch + Isaac's wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "to bind (rebecca biblical matriarch + isaac's wife)".

Rivka is from the Hebrew Rivqāh (רִבְקָה — to bind, to tie). Rebecca (Rivka) is one of the four matriarchs of Judaism — wife of Isaac, mother of Esau and Jacob (Genesis 24-27). Her story — drawn from the well at Nahor by Abraham's servant Eliezer and chosen as Isaac's bride — is one of the courtship narratives in biblical literature. She is the matriarch buried at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron alongside Sarah, Leah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — one of the Jewish pilgrimage sites. Central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.

To bind (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

רִבְקָה
Transliteration
Rivqāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɪv.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rivka stands.

Rivka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rivkas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rebecca (Rivka)
Biblical matriarch + Isaac's wife.

Names connected to Rivka.

The number behind Rivka.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rivka reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.