Riker
Riker was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,709 among boys’ names; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Riker and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riker by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riker?
#2,709 among boys’ names, 2025
Riker fell from #1,665 in 2015 to #2,709 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 49.6 to 28.1 per million.
95 babies in 2015, the peak
Riker peaked in 2015, when 95 boys were given it, #1,665 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,709 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,131 | 40.6 |
| 2023 | 79 | #1,961 | 46.2 |
| 2022 | 83 | #1,903 | 47.5 |
| 2021 | 80 | #1,908 | 45.7 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,062 | 40.0 |
| 2019 | 81 | #1,863 | 45.1 |
| 2018 | 74 | #1,990 | 40.7 |
| 2017 | 80 | #1,854 | 43.2 |
| 2016 | 95 | #1,672 | 50.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #1,665 | 49.6 |
| 2014 | 76 | #1,915 | 39.6 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,515 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,102 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,581 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,207 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,062 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,710 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,386 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,314 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,808 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,063 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,622 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,275 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,271 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,720 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,503 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,780 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,726 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,375 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,395 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,505 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,023 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Riker a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Riker has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Riker: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riker, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,258 Americans ever recorded as Riker. The median Riker alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 950 people named Riker (23 women and girls, 927 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 53 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 221 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 972 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Riker?
Riker is a less common spelling of Ryker: SSA has recorded 1,258 Riker and 41,784 Ryker since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 43,744 babies since 1880, Riker is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 2,115 babies (2.3%), again the second most given.
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 Riker
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 Riker and names like it
- Compare Riker and RykerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRiker peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riker since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Riker.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Riker alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.