Riki
Riki was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,741 among girls’ names; 1,626 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Riki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 28 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Riki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Riki?
#10,741 among girls’ names, 2025
Riki rose from #11,649 in 2015 to #10,741 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 5.6 per million.
54 babies in 1981, the peak
Riki peaked in 1981, when 54 babies were given it (46 girls, #2,220 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,741 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,927 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,981 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,938 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,978 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,761 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,199 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,267 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,505 | 5 | #13,831 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,061 | 7 | #10,501 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,649 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,397 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,912 | 9 | #8,621 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,039 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,011 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,206 | 6 | #11,874 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,598 | 10 | #8,167 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,870 | 11 | #7,592 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,906 | 16 | #5,626 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 12 | #6,815 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,178 | 12 | #6,531 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,660 | 10 | #7,402 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,511 | 9 | #7,696 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,996 | 10 | #6,938 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,618 | 11 | #6,344 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,544 | 15 | #4,990 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,325 | 11 | #5,959 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,008 | 8 | #7,399 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,361 | 5 | #10,475 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,025 | 12 | #5,113 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,182 | 9 | #6,304 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,203 | 6 | #8,576 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,267 | 17 | #3,776 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,844 | 11 | #5,164 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,297 | 14 | #4,172 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,086 | 13 | #4,354 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,087 | 11 | #4,745 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,273 | 11 | #4,392 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,707 | 12 | #3,916 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,828 | 12 | #3,827 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,309 | 8 | #5,048 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,303 | 10 | #4,144 |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,299 | 6 | #6,062 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,726 | 11 | #3,902 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,220 | 8 | #4,863 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,847 | 5 | #7,065 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,840 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,071 | 12 | #3,362 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,242 | 6 | #5,692 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,644 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,600 | 5 | #6,138 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,944 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,120 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,365 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,261 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,760 | 5 | #5,291 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,171 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,773 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,299 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,898 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,141 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,880 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,976 | 5 | #4,506 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,192 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,199 | 11 | #2,670 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,696 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,810 | 9 | #2,984 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,825 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,221 | 9 | #2,926 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,309 | 6 | #3,807 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,910 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,518 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,165 | 9 | #2,832 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,450 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,648 | 7 | #3,264 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,354 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,599 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,172 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,924 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,440 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Riki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,626 Americans recorded as Riki, 73% are girls and 27% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Riki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Riki, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,626 Americans ever recorded as Riki. The median Riki alive today is 39 years old; half are between 28 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,571 people named Riki (1,058 women and girls, 513 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,505 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 158 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 334 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 606 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 291 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
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).
Where are babies named Riki born?
The states with the most babies named Riki are California, New York and Texas, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 116 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Riki with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Riki?
Riki is a less common spelling of Rikki: SSA has recorded 1,626 Riki and 7,712 Rikki since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,934 babies since 1880, Riki is the third most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 96 babies (9.4%), again the third 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 Riki
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 Riki and names like it
- Compare Riki and RikkiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRiki peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Riki since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Riki.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Riki alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.