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Rifat

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Rifat has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Rifat, 2012

1 in 732,000

Rifat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rifat: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rifat means

Rifat is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Rifat is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Rifat between 1993 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1999; its best national rank was #8,517 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rifat?

Rifat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rifat sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rifat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rifats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rifat was born before 2001 — so the typical Rifat is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Rifat rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (7)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,517
1999

Spellings of Rifat

Rifat is not the most common spelling — Rian is, with 52.4% against Rifat's 0.52%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Rifat around the world

Where Rifat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1977–2012
    #6,491
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Rifat by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,517
1999
Peak year
1999
7 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rifat

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rifat

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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