Entry № 8713 · Yiddish origin

Rifka Rifka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RIF-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Yiddish
Meaning
"Captivating, to bind"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Yiddish)

A name that means "captivating, to bind".

Rifka is the Yiddish form of Rebecca — from the Hebrew Rivka, meaning "captivating" or "to bind." Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.

Rifka is widely used in Hasidic communities.

Captivating. The Yiddish Rebecca.

The name in its native script.

Rifka
Transliteration
Rifka
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɪf.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rifka stands.

Rifka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rifkas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rifka
Heroine of Letters from Rifka.
1992 novel

Names connected to Rifka.

The number behind Rifka.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rifka reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.