Rebecca

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I know it uses to be very popular but it's barely uses now (200ish last year) yet it doesn't feel dated to me. I love the full name so much, less keen on Becky / Becca though don't hate them.

What are your thoughts?

I find it dated, but that’s because I grew up surrounded by Beckys. It was super popular from around the 70s to the early 90s. I feel the same way about Sarah, Claire, Laura, Nicola, Lisa etc.

But it is a nice name and perhaps now is a clever time to use it. I know a two-year-old Natasha. It’s an unusual baby name these days, but everyone knows how to spell and pronounce it.

I call her boo or Becky. She goes by Becca on her YouTube channel and she likes to have her proper name on things like her black belt.

I have to admit that’s pretty cool.

I like the full name, but not keen on any of the shortened forms.

Like you, I think Rebecca is lovely but not keen on the abbreviations. You can get around that very easily though, by being insistent.

It’s my name I’m Bec to my closest friends but Rebecca to everyone else. I thank my mum for hating Becky and she wouldn’t allow anyone to shorten it.

Funnily I was thinking today how nice it would be to hear of a newborn Rebecca, no abbreviations .

Really like it.

But... can’t stand Bex, really dislike Becky, and Becca isn’t all that great. For this reason I wouldn’t risk it, but some Rebeccas are called by their full names.. tis a gamble

I have a Rebecca. She's early teens now. There's a nice balance because it's not dated really but at the same time, she's never had another in her class either. We call her Becsy.

Darkly romantic. Befitting enough for a book and a movie title, so there’s undeniably an intriguing beauty to the name Rebecca. It’s powerful! I also like the nn Becca, but def not Becky (“Becky with the good hair”).

I like it. It’s a universal name, so there are lots of foreign variants which you might want to look at for short forms.. You can shorten to Reba.

What is wrong with Becky? I've never ever heard a negative about it until today on here?

I think Rebecca is okay but the abbreviated forms, particularly Becky, are just a bit over used and rather tacky. It’s probably because there were so many of them when I was younger. There were so many Traceys & Sharons in the 60s and 70s and then Becky took over. It’s impossible to stop a name being shortened as school friends will do it even if your family don’t. There are much nicer names about but if you like it, use it.

It's my name. I get all the abbreviations. Bec, Bex, Becca, Becky. Doesn't bother me.

I also get called Rachel all the time too. That does get on my nerves. WTAF.

@ethelredonagoodday I also have been called Rachel, main offender was a very elderly neighbour of my parents, I stopped correcting after a couple of years

It's fine. Although every third girl between the years of 1970 - 2000 seems to have been called Rebecca, so I find it a bit boring.

Although don't go for it if you feel any shortenings would grate. Nothing more embarrassing than a parent trying to control what their kids' pals refer to them as.

'I'm afraid Alex cannot come out and play as no one by the name of Alex lives here. We do have an Alexander though?'

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Although don't go for it if you feel any shortenings would grate. Nothing more embarrassing than a parent trying to control what their kids' pals refer to them as.

'I'm afraid Alex cannot come out and play as no one by the name of Alex lives here. We do have an Alexander though?'

That is exactly the sort of thing my parents used to do to my sister. My Dad was particularly bad for it and would correct her friends publicly or over the phone if they called and asked for her using a shortened version of her name. It didn't work and was cringeworthy. She is in her fifties now and still likes to go by the shortened version.

All that behaviour taught me was to choose names for which we liked the long version and the usual shortenings when naming our own babies.

In our house though, only my parents were allowed to use short versions of their names! We have pointed out that double standard to them many times over the years. It is met with a slightly embarrassed silence.

I like all the regular shortenings of Rebecca.

Very pretty. Not so keen on Becky though. Has a friend at uni who shortened it to Reb which really suited her.

I love it! It was one of our picks if we were having a girl. I just said if anyone called her by that nickname, I wouldn't answer lol

I like it.
If your family likes nicknames they can call her Reba instead of Becky.

Is Becky (with the good hair) not just a younger Karen?

I think rebekah is the nicest version but I don’t really like the nn
It’s well known though so they’ll never have trouble with it and it probably won’t be overly common in their year group still

I really like the name Rebecca. To me it's a strong and classic name and fairly timeless.

I love it! It feels classic and timeless to me.

I also like Becca and Becky, but there is no rule saying you have to shorten her name (her friends might, obviously, but her friends could give her any nickname under the sun... I went to school with a Dizzy- real name Sarah 🤷‍♀️).

My Daughter is a Rebecca but much prefers Becky, Boo or Becky-Leigh... to the point were she's considering changing it by deed.

It just screams 80's/90's to me. I know a million Beck's/Becky's/Bex/Becca/Rebecca's my age so it also sounds super plain to me. I don't think it's quite ready for a come back.