How common is the surname Rifkin?

1,394 people in the United States had the surname Rifkin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,482 Americans. It ranked 19,390th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rifkin?

In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Rifkin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Rifkin?

Jeremy Rifkin, American economist, followed by Ron Rifkin.

Where is the surname Rifkin most common?

Wikidata records people named Rifkin in the United States.

Is the surname Rifkin getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,492 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,394 in 2010, down 6.6%.

The surname Rifkin

A Yiddish surname, carried by 1,394 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex R125

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rifkin is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

Yiddish origin

Jewish metronymic surname, from the Yiddish personal name רבֿקה (rivke, “Rebecca”), with the addition of the Proto-Slavic metronymic suffix *-inъ.

One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,394 people named Rifkin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,482 Americans. That is down 6.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,492.

#19,390

rank among US surnames

1,394

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-6.6%

change since 2000 (was #17,426)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,390	Rifkin	1,394	221,482
#19,398	Zaborowski	1,393	221,641

Who is named Rifkin

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

97% of people named Rifkin identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 97%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Rifkins

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jeremy Rifkin
American economist, born 1945
Ron Rifkin
American actor (born 1938)
Joel Rifkin
American serial killer, born 1959
Joshua Rifkin
American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist, born 1944

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Rifkind

Rifkin has the Soundex code R125, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R125.

Other Yiddish surnames

All 31 Yiddish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rifkin come from?: Jewish metronymic surname, from the Yiddish personal name רבֿקה (rivke, “Rebecca”), with the addition of the Proto-Slavic metronymic suffix *-inъ.
How common is the surname Rifkin?: 1,394 people in the United States had the surname Rifkin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,482 Americans. It ranked 19,390th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rifkin?: In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Rifkin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Rifkin?: Jeremy Rifkin, American economist, followed by Ron Rifkin.
Where is the surname Rifkin most common?: Wikidata records people named Rifkin in the United States.
Is the surname Rifkin getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,492 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,394 in 2010, down 6.6%.
What are other spellings of Rifkin?: Rifkind.