RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Rebecca

259 - Today

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Rebecca () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rebecca has received more than 2,200,895 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Rebecca is the 262nd most popular religious figure (up from 282nd in 2019).

Rebecca is most famous for being the title character of a novel by Daphne du Maurier.

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  • 2.2M

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  • 72.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Rebecca ranks 262 out of 3,187Before her are Pope Damasus II, Pope Boniface IV, Pope Honorius IV, Pope Gelasius II, Pope Felix III, and Pope John VIII. After her are Pope Urban I, Saint Pantaleon, Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Pope Sergius IV, Zechariah, and Pope Innocent V.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 259, Rebecca ranks 1After her are Emperor Hui of Jin, and Mammes of Caesarea.

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