Rika
Rika was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 555 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rika is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,104, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1991, the peak
Rika peaked in 1991, when 34 girls were given it, #3,269 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,104 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,023 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,512 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,520 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,919 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,844 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,014 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,129 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,038 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,250 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,653 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,787 | 7.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,160 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,779 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,762 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,423 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,140 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,736 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,818 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,543 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,138 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,118 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,625 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,657 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,384 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,574 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,949 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,565 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,269 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,765 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,444 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,542 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,549 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,390 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,955 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,655 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,079 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,810 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,691 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,244 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,853 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,464 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,381 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,834 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,760 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,117 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,778 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,093 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,040 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,881 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,444 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,906 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,610 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,610 | 3.2 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,198 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,079 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rika, and how old are they?
An estimated 537 Americans named Rika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,167 people named Rika (1,149 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,934 babies since 1880, Rika is the fourth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 96 babies recorded by SSA was a Rika (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rika
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rika and names like it
- Compare Rika and RikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRika peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rika since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Rika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Rika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.