Rifka — #8020 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rifka

The Social Security Administration has registered 728 babies named Rifka between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rifka currently holds the #8020 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rifka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 136 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Rifka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 562 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rifka in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rifka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 728 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.