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Rithik vs Rithvik

American parents have registered 781 Rithviks since 1880, against 333 Rithiks. Rithvik is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rithik against Rithvik, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rithik Rithvik

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 28 years in which either name was published, Rithvik for 27 years and Rithik for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Rithik Rithvik
Total US births 333781
Most in one year 2945
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 330770
Median age today 1614
Peak year 20082009
Best rank 3,646th boys2,702nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,208th
First recorded 20001998
Girls / boys 0 / 3330 / 781

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rithiks alive today are over 16; half the Rithviks are over 14. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Rithik Rithvik
England and Wales 6976

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rithik and Rithvik.