Find out how popular the last name Rybka is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Rybka.

Rybka, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Rybka surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Rybka in America

Rybka is the 34916th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Rybka surname appeared 646 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Rybka.

We can also compare 2010 data for Rybka to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Rybka

The surname Rybka is of Polish origin, derived from the word "rybka" which means "little fish" in Polish. It is believed to have originated as an occupational name for someone who caught or sold fish, or perhaps as a descriptive nickname for someone who bore some resemblance to a fish.

The name can be traced back to the 15th century in historical records from the regions of Silesia and Lesser Poland, which were part of the Kingdom of Poland at the time. In some records, the name is spelled "Rybka" or variations such as "Rybko" or "Rybicki".

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Rybka can be found in the Metrica Regni Poloniae, an official register of Polish nobility and gentry from the 16th century. It mentions a certain Jan Rybka, who was a landowner in the town of Brzeżany (now in Ukraine) in the late 15th century.

Another notable early bearer of the name was Andrzej Rybka, a Polish Catholic priest and theologian who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He was the author of several religious works and served as a canon in the Collegiate Church of St. Michael in Kraków.

In the 17th century, the name appears in the records of the town of Opole (then part of the Prussian Province of Silesia), where a family of brewers and merchants named Rybka resided.

During the 18th century, there was a Polish noble family named Rybka, whose coat of arms depicted three silver fish on a blue field. This family owned estates in the region of Kalisz, in central Poland.

One of the most famous individuals with the surname Rybka was Władysław Rybka (1892-1957), a Polish architect and urban planner who designed numerous buildings and urban developments in the city of Warsaw during the interwar period and after World War II.

The Rybka surname has also been found in other Slavic countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus, likely due to migration and intermarriage over the centuries. However, its origins and earliest recorded instances can be traced back to 15th-century Poland.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Rybka

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Rybka.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Rybka was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Rybka has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Rybka was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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