Rikiyah — girls' name
54 babies named Rikiyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
54 girls have been named Rikiyah since 2002, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2019.
- 54
- total births
- 2002–2019
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
54% of everyone ever named Rikiyah was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Rikiyah in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Rikiyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 54 babies named Rikiyah between 2002 and 2019, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rikiyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Rikiyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 29 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Rikiyah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Rikiyah 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 54 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.
Rikiyah at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Rikiyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2002
- Peak year (2009)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 18 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
54 total births across 18 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 9 births in a single year.
Rikiyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 29 births that decade — 54% of Rikiyah's all-time total
Rikiyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 29 births
- Runner-up 25 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Rikiyah's strongest decade
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.