Rifka
- #10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 736since 1952
Rifka over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Rifka has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 |
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| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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First appearance
1952
The first year at least five girls were named Rifka! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rifka is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Rifka in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 2,950 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #10,917)
- 1,964 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #10,917)
- 2,470 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1974 at #4,459 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 21 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 90,031
- Highest: 1 in 90,031 girls born in 2001 were named Rifka (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,459 in 1974, was only 1 in 112,887 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 18.5% of all girls named Rifka (136) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 32 | #4,595 (1953) | #5,702 |
| 1960s | 29 | #4,865 (1962) | #6,317 |
| 1970s | 95 | #4,459 (1974) | #5,871 |
| 1980s | 123 | #4,478 (1984) | #5,884 |
| 1990s | 125 | #5,424 (1999) | #7,311 |
| 2000s | 132 | #5,570 (2001) | #8,484 |
| 2010s | 136 | #6,401 (2016) | #8,487 |
| 2020s | 64 | #7,247 (2023) | #9,435 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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