Rika
About 555 American babies have been named Rika since 1959, most of them around 1991. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 540 Rikas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rika
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 555
- Estimated living today
- 540
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 3,207th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1959
How old the living Rikas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 555 babies given the name since 1959, about 540 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Rikas
- Rika Masuya (born 1995)Japanese association football player
- Rika Matsumoto (born 1968)Japanese voice actress, actress and singer
- Rika Fujiwara (born 1981)Japanese tennis player
- Rika Kihira (born 2002)Japanese figure skater
- Rika Zaraï (1938–2020)Israeli singer
- Rika Ishikawa (born 1985)Japanese female singer and talent
- Rika Fukami (born 1963)Japanese voice actress
- Rika Adachi (born 1992)Japanese actress
People named Rika with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rika is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rika is most concentrated in California (8.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Rika peaked:
Rika elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Rika | 30 | 2,519th |
| Switzerland girls | Rika | 15 | 1,296th |
| England and Wales girls | Rika | 9 | 2,466th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rika: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Rika | 15 | 0.001% | 993rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Rika among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Rika | 1,437 | 2,374 |
| Finland girls | Rika | 15 | 19 |
| the Netherlands boys | Rika | — | 11 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Rika against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.