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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Riki

Riki was the 10745th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 9 babies. Its best year was 1981, when it ranked 2220th with 46 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 909 places. More babies were named Riki in the 1980s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#10,745 girls, up 4,021 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
9girls
Girls and boys
Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
Peak year
198146 babies
Total since 1880
1,626babies recorded

Riki popularity since 1880

012.52537.550 1900192019401960198020002020
GirlsBoys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (girls)Rank (boys)Babies (girls)Babies (boys)
2025#10,745—9—
2020#14,766—6—
2010#13,212#11,88186
2000#11,552#4,997815
1990#4,091#4,3602513
1980#2,847#7,067325
1970#2,760#5,293265
1960#4,697—9—
1950#4,650#3,26577
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How popular is Riki, counting every spelling?

Riki is a spelling of Rikki, a name family that had 89 girls in 2025 across its spellings. Together these spellings went to 89 girls in 2025.

SpellingBabies 2025Official rankBabies 2021–2025
Rikki52#3,126239
Ricki28#4,853129
Riki9#10,74540

Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.

How many kids will share the name Riki?

9 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Riki (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Riki born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 930 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Riki.

Chance of another Riki in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Riki?

About 1,100 people born in the US named Riki are alive today, with a median age of 41; half are between 31 and 51. That makes Riki mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Names with a similar history

These names rose and fell in step with Riki: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Riki, they share its era and feel.

Questions about the name Riki

How popular is the name Riki?

Riki was the 10745th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 9 babies. Its best year was 1981, when it ranked 2220th with 46 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 909 places. More babies were named Riki in the 1980s than in any other decade.

Is Riki a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Riki in the US.