Rifky — #12520 US girls' name
467 babies named Rifky in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 29% of names given to girls today.
31% of everyone ever named Rifky was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Rifky in 2010 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rifky
The Social Security Administration has registered 467 babies named Rifky between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rifky currently holds the #12520 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rifky performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 147 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Rifky shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 421 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Rifky in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rifky 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 467 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.
Rifky at a glance
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Current rank
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Rifky popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1986
- Peak year (2010)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
Currently ranks #12520 among girls.
467 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2010 with 21 births in a single year.
Rifky by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 147 births that decade — 31% of Rifky's all-time total
Rifky decade highlights
- Peak decade 147 births
- Runner-up 142 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Rifky's strongest decade
147 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Rifky by state
Where Rifky concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 421 | 90.1% |
421 of 467 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 90.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 90.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.