Rifka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rifka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rifka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 78K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rifka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Rifka | 110 |
| US United States | 605 | 1 in 550K | 601 | Rifka | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | 222 | 1 in 78K | 222 | — | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Rifka | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 382K | listed | Rifka | 6 |
| QA Qatar | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Rifka | 5 |
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: the id-github-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the dz-kaggle-names 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rifka Bittmannb. 1866CZHolocaust victim (born 1866)
- Rifka Blumenthalb. 1866CZHolocaust victim (born 1866)
- Rifka Arnoldb. 1869CZHolocaust victim (born 1869)
- Rifka Braudeb. 1875CZHolocaust victim (born 1875)
- Rifka Dawidb. 1895ATHolocaust victim (born 1895)
- Rifka Buchwalterb. 1897UAHolocaust victim (born 1897)
- Rifka Levib. 1907BAYugoslav balerina
- Rifka Bergerováb. 1908CZHolocaust victim (born 1908)
- Rivkah Bar Yosefb. 1920ROnot in their usual nameRomanian sociologist
- Rifka Lodeizenb. 1972NLDutch actress (born 1972)
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 601 | #17,966 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 222 | #3,367 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 198 | #5,487 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 16 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Rifka?
- In the etymology graph, Rebecca, Rebeca and Rebekah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rifka?
- A machine transcription gives /rifka/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Rifka a male or female name?
- Rifka is a female 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.
- In which country does Rifka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Rifka in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rifka.
- How common is the name Rifka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 605 people named Rifka in 2020, about 1 in 550 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rifka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rifkaThe 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, “Rifka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.