Rif
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Rif is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- ATAustria
- CACanada
- USUnited States
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.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)»mjera za tkanine dužine pola metra, lakat, endeze, aršin«
Cited for this meaning 2
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rif counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | — | — | Rif | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | — | Rif | 1 |
| US United States | — | listed | Rif | 61 |
| FI Finland | — | 114 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 33 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 14 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 7 | — | 5 |
| FR France | — | 7 | — | 2 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)Rif is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Rif. 13-14th Centuries.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In German, initialism of Ruhe in Frieden (“requiescat in pace/RIP”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, initialism of rock identitaire français, a patriotic stream in French rock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, reef: a chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Tarifit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of reduction in force.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 114 | #11,574 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 60 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #31,677 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #68,022 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #84,058 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 4 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Rif have the most bearers?
- Rif is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled rif.
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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, “Rif”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.