Rikki — #3760 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Rikki

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,033 babies named Rikki between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rikki currently holds the #3760 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 362 babies received it in a single year. Rikki is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 624 additional births since 1947.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rikki performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,222 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Rikki shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 733 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Rikki in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rikki 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 7,033 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.