Family name 里夫 (Raef 
, Reeve 
, 里夫 
) , throughout the world, is a common cognomen. The surname 里夫 is habitual in the United Kingdom, where it is quite a common surname, New Zealand, where it is quite a rare surname, and Australia. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Egypt. Very seldom, 里夫 is the forename as well as the last name.