Rifat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yükseklik, yücelik, büyüklük
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɾifat̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rifat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 8K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rifat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Рифат in RU Russia.
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)
Yükseklik, yücelik, büyüklük.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rifat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #496 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Rifat | 72 |
| RU Russia | #393 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | #254 | Рифат | 136 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Rifat | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Rifat | 80 |
| XK Kosovo | #552 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2.6K | Rifat | 3 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Rifat | 15 |
| US United States | — | 711 | 1 in 468K | 409 | Rifat | 74 |
| AL Albania | — | 581 | 1 in 5.3K | 581 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #286 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Rifat | 12 |
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the id-github-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Rifat 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 Arabic, dignity, exaltation, high rank, high standing
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Catalan, past participle of rifar
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)
- Mehmet Rifat Börekçib. 1860TRTurkish statesperson (1860–1941)
- Rifat Chadirjib. 1926IQIraqi architect (1926–2020)
- Rifaat al-Assadb. 1937SYnot in their usual nameSyrian former military officer and politician (1937–2026)
- Rifat Kukajb. 1938Kosovar Albanian writer (1938–2005)
- Rifat Rastoderb. 1950MEMontenegrin Bosniak politician
- Rifat Shaykhutdinovb. 1963RURussian politician
- Refaat Alareerb. 1979PSnot in their usual namePalestinian writer, Palestinian victim of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip in December 2023
- Rifat Mostafinb. 1983RURussian footballer
- Rifat Artikovb. 1983UZUzbek decathlete
- Rifat Camaletdinefb. 1996RURussian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.6K | #262 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 581 | #838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 409 | #15,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 302 | #15,999 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2 | #262 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- How do you pronounce Rifat?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾifat̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Rifat mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yükseklik, yücelik, büyüklük.
- Is Rifat a male or female name?
- Rifat 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 Rifat?
- In the etymology graph, Rıfat is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rifat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Rifat in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rifat.
- How common is the name Rifat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 711 people named Rifat in 2020, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
- How common is Rifat compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Rifat is the 496th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rifat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rifatThe 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, “Rifat” — the 496th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.