Rifà
surname · Latin script
Rifà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: happiness, prosperity.
- SESweden1 in 537K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 941K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 537K (inferred from the name graph)
19 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rifa in US United States, IN India, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
happiness, prosperity
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rifà counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 2 | 1 in 941K | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | Rifa | 57 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Rifa | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Rifa | 32 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Rifa | 21 |
| SY Syria | — | — | — | Rifa | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Rifa | 16 |
19 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rifà is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, third-person singular preterite indicative of rifar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, third-person singular present indicative of rifare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fina Rifàb. 1939ESSpanish artist (born 1939)
- Helena Rifà-PousESresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-0923-0235
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Rifà mean, and where does it come from?
- happiness, prosperity Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Rifà have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 19 people named Rifà, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rifà most common?
- Rifà is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 537 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rifà?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 19 people named Rifà, about 1 in 537 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rif%C3%A0The 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, “Rifà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.