Rıfat
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rıfat is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. Recorded meaning: bk. Rifat.
- TRTürkiye
- CYCyprus
- SYSyria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bk. Rifat
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- TRTürkiye
- SYSyria
- USUnited States
- CYCyprus
- DEGermany
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Damat Gürcü Halil Rifat Pashab. 1795TRnot in their usual nameOttoman statesman
- Rifat Arazb. 1878TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (1878–1964)
- Rıfat Yüceb. 1879TRTurkish statesperson (1879–1952)
- Rıfat Ilgazb. 1911TRTurkish poet and writer (1911–1993)
- Rıfat Turgut Menemencioğlub. 1914TRTurkish diplomat (1914–2010)
- Rıfat Çalışkanb. 1940TRTurkish cyclist (1940–2009)
- Rifat Serdaroğlub. 1948TRnot in their usual nameTurkish statesperson (born 1948)
- Rıfat Balib. 1948TRTurkish historian and writer (born 1948)
- Rifat Ozbekb. 1953TRnot in their usual nameTurkish fashion designer (born 1953)
- Rıfat Yıldızb. 1965TRTurkish-German wrestler (born 1965)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 43 | #12,940 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #24,300 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rıfat mean?
- Recorded meaning: bk. Rifat
- Is Rıfat a male or female name?
- Rıfat is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Rıfat?
- In the etymology graph, Rifat is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rıfat have the most bearers?
- Rıfat is most frequently recorded in Türkiye.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C4%B1fatThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rıfat”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.