Riker — #2144 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Riker

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,208 babies named Riker between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Riker currently holds the #2144 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 95 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Riker performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 641 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Riker shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 72 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Riker in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Riker in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,208 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.